conspirer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English conspire

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 conspirer

From conspire + -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

conspirer (plural conspirers)

1. Someone who conspires.

   Synonym: conspirator

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnspīrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁe/

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Verb

conspirer

1. to conspire

Conjugation

Conjugation of conspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	conspirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	conspirant /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		conspiré /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conspire /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	conspires /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	conspire /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	conspirons /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	conspirez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁe/	conspirent /kɔ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect	conspirais /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	conspirais /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	conspirait /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	conspirions /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	conspiriez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁje/	conspiraient /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	conspirai /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁe/	conspiras /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁa/	conspira /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁa/	conspirâmes /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁam/	conspirâtes /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁat/	conspirèrent /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	conspirerai /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	conspireras /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	conspirera /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	conspirerons /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	conspirerez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	conspireront /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	conspirerais /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conspirerais /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conspirerait /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conspirerions /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	conspireriez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁje/	conspireraient /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁə.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	conspire /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	conspires /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	conspire /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	conspirions /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	conspiriez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁje/	conspirent /kɔ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect2	conspirasse /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁas/	conspirasses /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁas/	conspirât /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁa/	conspirassions /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	conspirassiez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁa.sje/	conspirassent /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conspire /kɔ̃s.piʁ/	—	conspirons /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	conspirez /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• conspirateur
• conspiration

Further reading

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