exciter

English

Etymology

From excite +‎ -er.

Noun

exciter (plural exciters)

1. One who or that which excites.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 173:

     It imparts a sweetness to the breath, is a valuable medicine in all nervous complaints, and is esteemed as a prolonger of life and an exciter of venery.

2. The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
3. An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excitāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.si.te/

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Verb

exciter

1. to excite (to stir the emotions of)

Conjugation

Conjugation of exciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exciter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	excitant /ɛk.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		excité /ɛk.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	excite /ɛk.sit/	excites /ɛk.sit/	excite /ɛk.sit/	excitons /ɛk.si.tɔ̃/	excitez /ɛk.si.te/	excitent /ɛk.sit/
	imperfect	excitais /ɛk.si.tɛ/	excitais /ɛk.si.tɛ/	excitait /ɛk.si.tɛ/	excitions /ɛk.si.tjɔ̃/	excitiez /ɛk.si.tje/	excitaient /ɛk.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	excitai /ɛk.si.te/	excitas /ɛk.si.ta/	excita /ɛk.si.ta/	excitâmes /ɛk.si.tam/	excitâtes /ɛk.si.tat/	excitèrent /ɛk.si.tɛʁ/
	future	exciterai /ɛk.si.tʁe/	exciteras /ɛk.si.tʁa/	excitera /ɛk.si.tʁa/	exciterons /ɛk.si.tʁɔ̃/	exciterez /ɛk.si.tʁe/	exciteront /ɛk.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exciterais /ɛk.si.tʁɛ/	exciterais /ɛk.si.tʁɛ/	exciterait /ɛk.si.tʁɛ/	exciterions /ɛk.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	exciteriez /ɛk.si.tə.ʁje/	exciteraient /ɛk.si.tʁɛ/
(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	excite /ɛk.sit/	excites /ɛk.sit/	excite /ɛk.sit/	excitions /ɛk.si.tjɔ̃/	excitiez /ɛk.si.tje/	excitent /ɛk.sit/
	imperfect2	excitasse /ɛk.si.tas/	excitasses /ɛk.si.tas/	excitât /ɛk.si.ta/	excitassions /ɛk.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	excitassiez /ɛk.si.ta.sje/	excitassent /ɛk.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	excite /ɛk.sit/	—	excitons /ɛk.si.tɔ̃/	excitez /ɛk.si.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

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

Latin

Verb

exciter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of excitō