habiliter

French

Etymology

From Middle French (h)abiliter (14th c.), a borrowing from Latin habilitare. By surface analysis, habile +‎ -iter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi.li.te/

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Verb

habiliter

1. to habilitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of habiliter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	habiliter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	habilitant /a.bi.li.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		habilité /a.bi.li.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	habilite /a.bi.lit/	habilites /a.bi.lit/	habilite /a.bi.lit/	habilitons /a.bi.li.tɔ̃/	habilitez /a.bi.li.te/	habilitent /a.bi.lit/
	imperfect	habilitais /a.bi.li.tɛ/	habilitais /a.bi.li.tɛ/	habilitait /a.bi.li.tɛ/	habilitions /a.bi.li.tjɔ̃/	habilitiez /a.bi.li.tje/	habilitaient /a.bi.li.tɛ/
	past historic2	habilitai /a.bi.li.te/	habilitas /a.bi.li.ta/	habilita /a.bi.li.ta/	habilitâmes /a.bi.li.tam/	habilitâtes /a.bi.li.tat/	habilitèrent /a.bi.li.tɛʁ/
	future	habiliterai /a.bi.li.tʁe/	habiliteras /a.bi.li.tʁa/	habilitera /a.bi.li.tʁa/	habiliterons /a.bi.li.tʁɔ̃/	habiliterez /a.bi.li.tʁe/	habiliteront /a.bi.li.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	habiliterais /a.bi.li.tʁɛ/	habiliterais /a.bi.li.tʁɛ/	habiliterait /a.bi.li.tʁɛ/	habiliterions /a.bi.li.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	habiliteriez /a.bi.li.tə.ʁje/	habiliteraient /a.bi.li.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	habilite /a.bi.lit/	habilites /a.bi.lit/	habilite /a.bi.lit/	habilitions /a.bi.li.tjɔ̃/	habilitiez /a.bi.li.tje/	habilitent /a.bi.lit/
	imperfect2	habilitasse /a.bi.li.tas/	habilitasses /a.bi.li.tas/	habilitât /a.bi.li.ta/	habilitassions /a.bi.li.ta.sjɔ̃/	habilitassiez /a.bi.li.ta.sje/	habilitassent /a.bi.li.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	habilite /a.bi.lit/	—	habilitons /a.bi.li.tɔ̃/	habilitez /a.bi.li.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).

Derived terms

• habilitation
• réhabiliter

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

habiliter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of habilitō

References

• “habiliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “habiliter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.