horripiler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin horripilāre, horripilō (“to have one's hair bristled, ruffled”), from Latin horreo + pilus.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.pi.le/

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Verb

horripiler

1. (transitive) to exasperate, infuriating

Conjugation

Conjugation of horripiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	horripiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	horripilant /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		horripilé /ɔ.ʁi.pi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	horripile /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	horripiles /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	horripile /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	horripilons /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɔ̃/	horripilez /ɔ.ʁi.pi.le/	horripilent /ɔ.ʁi.pil/
	imperfect	horripilais /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɛ/	horripilais /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɛ/	horripilait /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɛ/	horripilions /ɔ.ʁi.pi.ljɔ̃/	horripiliez /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lje/	horripilaient /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɛ/
	past historic2	horripilai /ɔ.ʁi.pi.le/	horripilas /ɔ.ʁi.pi.la/	horripila /ɔ.ʁi.pi.la/	horripilâmes /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lam/	horripilâtes /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lat/	horripilèrent /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɛʁ/
	future	horripilerai /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁe/	horripileras /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁa/	horripilera /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁa/	horripilerons /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁɔ̃/	horripilerez /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁe/	horripileront /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	horripilerais /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁɛ/	horripilerais /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁɛ/	horripilerait /ɔ.ʁi.pil.ʁɛ/	horripilerions /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	horripileriez /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lə.ʁje/	horripileraient /ɔ.ʁi.pil.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	horripile /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	horripiles /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	horripile /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	horripilions /ɔ.ʁi.pi.ljɔ̃/	horripiliez /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lje/	horripilent /ɔ.ʁi.pil/
	imperfect2	horripilasse /ɔ.ʁi.pi.las/	horripilasses /ɔ.ʁi.pi.las/	horripilât /ɔ.ʁi.pi.la/	horripilassions /ɔ.ʁi.pi.la.sjɔ̃/	horripilassiez /ɔ.ʁi.pi.la.sje/	horripilassent /ɔ.ʁi.pi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	horripile /ɔ.ʁi.pil/	—	horripilons /ɔ.ʁi.pi.lɔ̃/	horripilez /ɔ.ʁi.pi.le/	—
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

• horripilant

Related terms

• horrifier
• horreur

Further reading

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