contester

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English contest

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 contester

From contest + -er.

Noun

contester (plural contesters)

1. One who contests something.
   • 2000, Robert S. Menchin, Where There's a Will:

     Meanwhile, Millar's second cousins and even more remote relatives hired lawyers to litigate the will out of existence. Contesters of the will claimed that the clause “encouraged immorality” and was “against public policy” […]

Anagrams

• Cornettes, recontest

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin contestārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/

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Verb

contester

1. to contest; to challenge; to dispute

Conjugation

Conjugation of contester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contestant /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contesté /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/	contestes /kɔ̃.tɛst/	conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/	contestons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɔ̃/	contestez /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/	contestent /kɔ̃.tɛst/
	imperfect	contestais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/	contestais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/	contestait /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/	contestions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tjɔ̃/	contestiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tje/	contestaient /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	contestai /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/	contestas /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/	contesta /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/	contestâmes /kɔ̃.tɛs.tam/	contestâtes /kɔ̃.tɛs.tat/	contestèrent /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	contesterai /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁe/	contesteras /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁa/	contestera /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁa/	contesterons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	contesterez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁe/	contesteront /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contesterais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	contesterais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	contesterait /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	contesterions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	contesteriez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁje/	contesteraient /kɔ̃.tɛs.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	conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/	contestes /kɔ̃.tɛst/	conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/	contestions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tjɔ̃/	contestiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tje/	contestent /kɔ̃.tɛst/
	imperfect2	contestasse /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/	contestasses /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/	contestât /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/	contestassions /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	contestassiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta.sje/	contestassent /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/	—	contestons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɔ̃/	contestez /kɔ̃.tɛs.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).

Related terms

• contestation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• corsètent, escortent

Latin

Verb

contester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of contestor

Norman

Etymology

From Latin contestor, contestārī (“call to witness”).

Verb

contester

1. (Jersey) to contest

Old French

Etymology

First attested 1338, Latin contestor.

Verb

contester

1. to contest; to dispute
2. to attest

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of contester (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		contester			avoir contesté
gerund		en contestant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		contestant
past participle		contesté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	contest	contestes	conteste	contestons	contestez	contestent
	imperfect	contestoie, contesteie, contestoe, contesteve	contestoies, contesteies, contestoes, contesteves	contestoit, contesteit, contestot, contesteve	contestiiens, contestiens	contestiiez, contestiez	contestoient, contesteient, contestoent, contestevent
	preterite	contestai	contestas	contesta	contestames	contestastes	contesterent
	future	contesterai	contesteras	contestera	contesterons	contesteroiz, contestereiz, contesterez	contesteront
	conditional	contesteroie, contestereie	contesteroies, contestereies	contesteroit, contestereit	contesteriiens, contesteriens	contesteriiez, contesteriez	contesteroient, contestereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	contest	contez	contest	contestons	contestez	contestent
	imperfect	contestasse	contestasses	contestast	contestissons, contestissiens	contestissoiz, contestissez, contestissiez	contestassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	conteste	—	contestons	contestez	—

Descendants

• English: contest
• French: contester
• Norman: contester

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “contester”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• Etymology and history of “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012