commenter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English comment

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

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

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English commenter

From comment + -er.

Noun

commenter (plural commenters)

1. One who comments.
   • 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 June 2019:

     There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

   • 2019 June 27, Lisa Respers France, “Country star Jake Owen claps back at anti-LGBTQ commenter”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The country singer took on an Instagram commenter who had words to say regarding Owen’s latest song.

Synonyms

• commentator

Translations

one who comments

• Finnish: kommentoija (fi)
• French: commentateur (fr)
• Polish: komentator (pl) m pers, komentatorka (pl) f
• Spanish: comentador m

Anagrams

• recomment

French

Etymology

From Latin commentum, from comminisci (“to invent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

commenter

1. to comment

Conjugation

Conjugation of commenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	commenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	commentant /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		commenté /kɔ.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	commente /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	commentes /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	commente /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	commentons /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	commentez /kɔ.mɑ̃.te/	commentent /kɔ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	commentais /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	commentais /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	commentait /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	commentions /kɔ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	commentiez /kɔ.mɑ̃.tje/	commentaient /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	commentai /kɔ.mɑ̃.te/	commentas /kɔ.mɑ̃.ta/	commenta /kɔ.mɑ̃.ta/	commentâmes /kɔ.mɑ̃.tam/	commentâtes /kɔ.mɑ̃.tat/	commentèrent /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	commenterai /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	commenteras /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	commentera /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	commenterons /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	commenterez /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	commenteront /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	commenterais /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	commenterais /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	commenterait /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	commenterions /kɔ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	commenteriez /kɔ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	commenteraient /kɔ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	commente /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	commentes /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	commente /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	commentions /kɔ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	commentiez /kɔ.mɑ̃.tje/	commentent /kɔ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	commentasse /kɔ.mɑ̃.tas/	commentasses /kɔ.mɑ̃.tas/	commentât /kɔ.mɑ̃.ta/	commentassions /kɔ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	commentassiez /kɔ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	commentassent /kɔ.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	commente /kɔ.mɑ̃t/	—	commentons /kɔ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	commentez /kɔ.mɑ̃.te/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• commèrent

Latin

Verb

commenter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of commentor