concocter

English

Alternative forms

• concoctor

Etymology

Etymology tree

English concoct

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English concocter

From concoct + -er.

Noun

concocter (plural concocters)

1. One who or that concocts.
   • Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel

     She took those pills from the pill concocter,
     And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.

   • 2004, David B. Goldstein, Recipes for authorship:

     The idea that Milton's imitatio operates through a process of gathering and culling rather than one of sublimating and assimilating cuts against the grain of much recent criticism, which views Milton as the great concocter/transumer.

Anagrams

• reconcoct

French

Etymology

Back-formation from concoction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.kɔk.te/

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Verb

concocter

1. (transitive) to concoct

Conjugation

Conjugation of concocter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	concocter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	concoctant /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		concocté /kɔ̃.kɔk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	concocte /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	concoctes /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	concocte /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	concoctons /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɔ̃/	concoctez /kɔ̃.kɔk.te/	concoctent /kɔ̃.kɔkt/
	imperfect	concoctais /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/	concoctais /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/	concoctait /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/	concoctions /kɔ̃.kɔk.tjɔ̃/	concoctiez /kɔ̃.kɔk.tje/	concoctaient /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/
	past historic2	concoctai /kɔ̃.kɔk.te/	concoctas /kɔ̃.kɔk.ta/	concocta /kɔ̃.kɔk.ta/	concoctâmes /kɔ̃.kɔk.tam/	concoctâtes /kɔ̃.kɔk.tat/	concoctèrent /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛʁ/
	future	concocterai /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁe/	concocteras /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁa/	concoctera /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁa/	concocterons /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	concocterez /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁe/	concocteront /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	concocterais /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɛ/	concocterais /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɛ/	concocterait /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɛ/	concocterions /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	concocteriez /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁje/	concocteraient /kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.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	concocte /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	concoctes /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	concocte /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	concoctions /kɔ̃.kɔk.tjɔ̃/	concoctiez /kɔ̃.kɔk.tje/	concoctent /kɔ̃.kɔkt/
	imperfect2	concoctasse /kɔ̃.kɔk.tas/	concoctasses /kɔ̃.kɔk.tas/	concoctât /kɔ̃.kɔk.ta/	concoctassions /kɔ̃.kɔk.ta.sjɔ̃/	concoctassiez /kɔ̃.kɔk.ta.sje/	concoctassent /kɔ̃.kɔk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	concocte /kɔ̃.kɔkt/	—	concoctons /kɔ̃.kɔk.tɔ̃/	concoctez /kɔ̃.kɔk.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

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