enrober

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Old French en-bor.

Middle English en-

English en-

English robe

English enrobe

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 enrober

From enrobe + -er.

Noun

enrober (plural enrobers)

1. A machine used to coat food, especially confectionery with chocolate.
2. A person who operates such a machine.
   • 1980, Lester R. Bittel, Sweetco: A Resource and Activity File, page 12:

     2 years' experience as packer and enrober, 4 years as inspector

Related terms

• disrober

Anagrams

• Boerner, reborne

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.be/

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Verb

enrober

1. to coat

Conjugation

Conjugation of enrober (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enrober
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enrobant /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enrobé /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enrobe /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	enrobes /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	enrobe /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	enrobons /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɔ̃/	enrobez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.be/	enrobent /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/
	imperfect	enrobais /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɛ/	enrobais /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɛ/	enrobait /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɛ/	enrobions /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bjɔ̃/	enrobiez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bje/	enrobaient /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɛ/
	past historic2	enrobai /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.be/	enrobas /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.ba/	enroba /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.ba/	enrobâmes /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bam/	enrobâtes /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bat/	enrobèrent /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɛʁ/
	future	enroberai /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁe/	enroberas /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁa/	enrobera /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁa/	enroberons /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁɔ̃/	enroberez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁe/	enroberont /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enroberais /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁɛ/	enroberais /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁɛ/	enroberait /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁɛ/	enroberions /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	enroberiez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bə.ʁje/	enroberaient /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bʁɛ/
(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	enrobe /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	enrobes /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	enrobe /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	enrobions /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bjɔ̃/	enrobiez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bje/	enrobent /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/
	imperfect2	enrobasse /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bas/	enrobasses /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bas/	enrobât /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.ba/	enrobassions /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.ba.sjɔ̃/	enrobassiez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.ba.sje/	enrobassent /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enrobe /ɑ̃.ʁɔb/	—	enrobons /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.bɔ̃/	enrobez /ɑ̃.ʁɔ.be/	—
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

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