caresser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English caress

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English caresser

From caress + -er.

Noun

caresser (plural caressers)

1. One who caresses.

Translations

one who caresses

• Portuguese: acariciador m
• Quechua: maywaq
• Spanish: acariciador (es) m

Anagrams

• creasers

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian carezzare. Morphologically, from caresse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁɛ.se/ ~ /ka.ʁe.se/

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Verb

caresser

1. to stroke; to caress (to move the hand over the surface of)
2. to toy with
3. to touch up; put the final touches on

Conjugation

Conjugation of caresser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caresser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	caressant /ka.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caressé /ka.ʁɛ.se/ or /ka.ʁe.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caresse /ka.ʁɛs/	caresses /ka.ʁɛs/	caresse /ka.ʁɛs/	caressons /ka.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sɔ̃/	caressez /ka.ʁɛ.se/ or /ka.ʁe.se/	caressent /ka.ʁɛs/
	imperfect	caressais /ka.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sɛ/	caressais /ka.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sɛ/	caressait /ka.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sɛ/	caressions /ka.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	caressiez /ka.ʁɛ.sje/ or /ka.ʁe.sje/	caressaient /ka.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	caressai /ka.ʁɛ.se/ or /ka.ʁe.se/	caressas /ka.ʁɛ.sa/ or /ka.ʁe.sa/	caressa /ka.ʁɛ.sa/ or /ka.ʁe.sa/	caressâmes /ka.ʁɛ.sam/ or /ka.ʁe.sam/	caressâtes /ka.ʁɛ.sat/ or /ka.ʁe.sat/	caressèrent /ka.ʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /ka.ʁe.sɛʁ/
	future	caresserai /ka.ʁɛ.sʁe/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁe/	caresseras /ka.ʁɛ.sʁa/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁa/	caressera /ka.ʁɛ.sʁa/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁa/	caresserons /ka.ʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁɔ̃/	caresserez /ka.ʁɛ.sʁe/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁe/	caresseront /ka.ʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caresserais /ka.ʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁɛ/	caresserais /ka.ʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁɛ/	caresserait /ka.ʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁɛ/	caresserions /ka.ʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	caresseriez /ka.ʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /ka.ʁe.sə.ʁje/	caresseraient /ka.ʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ka.ʁe.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	caresse /ka.ʁɛs/	caresses /ka.ʁɛs/	caresse /ka.ʁɛs/	caressions /ka.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	caressiez /ka.ʁɛ.sje/ or /ka.ʁe.sje/	caressent /ka.ʁɛs/
	imperfect2	caressasse /ka.ʁɛ.sas/ or /ka.ʁe.sas/	caressasses /ka.ʁɛ.sas/ or /ka.ʁe.sas/	caressât /ka.ʁɛ.sa/ or /ka.ʁe.sa/	caressassions /ka.ʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/	caressassiez /ka.ʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /ka.ʁe.sa.sje/	caressassent /ka.ʁɛ.sas/ or /ka.ʁe.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	caresse /ka.ʁɛs/	—	caressons /ka.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.sɔ̃/	caressez /ka.ʁɛ.se/ or /ka.ʁe.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• caresser dans le sens du poil

Further reading

• “caresser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012