flamboyer

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from French flamboyer (“to be bright”).

Noun

flamboyer (plural flamboyers)

1. (archaic) Any of various trees in the East and West Indies with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinieae, especially of Delonix and Caesalpinia, all of which were formerly in the obsolete genus Poinciana.

References

• “flamboyer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French flambeier, from Vulgar Latin *flammidiāre (but influenced by flambe). By surface analysis, flambe +‎ -oyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɑ̃.bwa.je/

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Verb

flamboyer

1. (intransitive) to blaze, flame

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

Conjugation of flamboyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flamboyer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flamboyant /flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flamboyé /flɑ̃.bwa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/	flamboies /flɑ̃.bwa/	flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/	flamboyons /flɑ̃.bwa.jɔ̃/	flamboyez /flɑ̃.bwa.je/	flamboient /flɑ̃.bwa/
	imperfect	flamboyais /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/	flamboyais /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/	flamboyait /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/	flamboyions /flɑ̃.bwaj.jɔ̃/	flamboyiez /flɑ̃.bwaj.je/	flamboyaient /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/
	past historic2	flamboyai /flɑ̃.bwa.je/	flamboyas /flɑ̃.bwa.ja/	flamboya /flɑ̃.bwa.ja/	flamboyâmes /flɑ̃.bwa.jam/	flamboyâtes /flɑ̃.bwa.jat/	flamboyèrent /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛʁ/
	future	flamboierai /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁe/	flamboieras /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁa/	flamboiera /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁa/	flamboierons /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɔ̃/	flamboierez /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁe/	flamboieront /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flamboierais /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɛ/	flamboierais /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɛ/	flamboierait /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɛ/	flamboierions /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁjɔ̃/	flamboieriez /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁje/	flamboieraient /flɑ̃.bwa.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	flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/	flamboies /flɑ̃.bwa/	flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/	flamboyions /flɑ̃.bwaj.jɔ̃/	flamboyiez /flɑ̃.bwaj.je/	flamboient /flɑ̃.bwa/
	imperfect2	flamboyasse /flɑ̃.bwa.jas/	flamboyasses /flɑ̃.bwa.jas/	flamboyât /flɑ̃.bwa.ja/	flamboyassions /flɑ̃.bwa.ja.sjɔ̃/	flamboyassiez /flɑ̃.bwa.ja.sje/	flamboyassent /flɑ̃.bwa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/	—	flamboyons /flɑ̃.bwa.jɔ̃/	flamboyez /flɑ̃.bwa.je/	—
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

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