coacher

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti

Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō

Latin *quoquō

Latin coquō

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Archaic Latin -os

Latin -us

Late Latin coquusbor.

Proto-West Germanic *kok

Old High German choch

Middle High German koch

German Kochbor.

Hungarian Koch

Hungarian Kocs

Hungarian kocsibor.

German Kutschebor.

Middle French cochebor.

English coach

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English coacher

From coach + -er.

Noun

coacher (plural coachers)

2. A person who coaches or gives instruction: a coach.
4. (obsolete) A coach driver.

   Near-synonyms: coachman, coachwoman

6. A coach horse.
8. (Australia) A tame animal used as a lure to attract wild beasts, especially cattle. [from 19th c.]
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 167:

     Bo said, ‘No good having a trap yard without a bunch of coachers.’

Related terms

• porte cochère

References

• “coacher” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Anagrams

• caroche

French

Etymology

From English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot.ʃe/

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Verb

coacher

1. (sports) to coach

Conjugation

Conjugation of coacher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coacher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	coachant /kot.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coaché /kot.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	coache /kotʃ/	coaches /kotʃ/	coache /kotʃ/	coachons /kot.ʃɔ̃/	coachez /kot.ʃe/	coachent /kotʃ/
	imperfect	coachais /kot.ʃɛ/	coachais /kot.ʃɛ/	coachait /kot.ʃɛ/	coachions /kot.ʃjɔ̃/	coachiez /kot.ʃje/	coachaient /kot.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	coachai /kot.ʃe/	coachas /kot.ʃa/	coacha /kot.ʃa/	coachâmes /kot.ʃam/	coachâtes /kot.ʃat/	coachèrent /kot.ʃɛʁ/
	future	coacherai /kot.ʃə.ʁe/	coacheras /kot.ʃə.ʁa/	coachera /kot.ʃə.ʁa/	coacherons /kot.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	coacherez /kot.ʃə.ʁe/	coacheront /kot.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coacherais /kot.ʃə.ʁɛ/	coacherais /kot.ʃə.ʁɛ/	coacherait /kot.ʃə.ʁɛ/	coacherions /kot.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	coacheriez /kot.ʃə.ʁje/	coacheraient /kot.ʃə.ʁɛ/
(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	coache /kotʃ/	coaches /kotʃ/	coache /kotʃ/	coachions /kot.ʃjɔ̃/	coachiez /kot.ʃje/	coachent /kotʃ/
	imperfect2	coachasse /kot.ʃas/	coachasses /kot.ʃas/	coachât /kot.ʃa/	coachassions /kot.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	coachassiez /kot.ʃa.sje/	coachassent /kot.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	coache /kotʃ/	—	coachons /kot.ʃɔ̃/	coachez /kot.ʃe/	—
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).

Anagrams

• cochera, écorcha

Swedish

Noun

coacher

1. indefinite plural of coach