escaper
English
Etymology
Noun
escaper (plural escapers)
- A person who escapes.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- (computing) A program or algorithm for escaping text.
- an HTML escaper; a query escaper
Anagrams
Old French
Verb
escaper
- Alternative form of eschaper
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 166 of this essay:<-- Although this is technically Middle French -->
- aulcuns en escapent et aulcuns meurent
- some escape it and some die from it
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ps, *-pt are modified to s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of escaper (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | escaper | avoir escapé | |||||
gerund | en escapant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | escapant | ||||||
past participle | escapé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | escap | escapes | escape | escapons | escapez | escapent |
imperfect | escapoie, escapeie, escapoe, escapeve | escapoies, escapeies, escapoes, escapeves | escapoit, escapeit, escapot, escapeve | escapiiens, escapiens | escapiiez, escapiez | escapoient, escapeient, escapoent, escapevent | |
preterite | escapai | escapas | escapa | escapames | escapastes | escaperent | |
future | escaperai | escaperas | escapera | escaperons | escaperoiz, escapereiz, escaperez | escaperont | |
conditional | escaperoie, escapereie | escaperoies, escapereies | escaperoit, escapereit | escaperiiens, escaperiens | escaperiiez, escaperiez | escaperoient, escapereient | |
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 | escap | escas | escat | escapons | escapez | escapent |
imperfect | escapasse | escapasses | escapast | escapissons, escapissiens | escapissoiz, escapissez, escapissiez | escapassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | escape | — | escapons | escapez | — |