inciter

English

Alternative forms

• incitor

Etymology

Etymology tree

English incite

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English inciter

From incite + -er.

Noun

inciter (plural inciters)

1. One who incites.

   Synonyms: tempter, seducer, solicitor (obsolete)

   • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 369:

     ‘Someone put those disrespectful imbeciles up to what they did! And I want that inciter in custody else I’ll do what I did in the war, else I’ll show every single one of you why they call me Tuvy!’

Translations

one who incites

• Bulgarian: подстрека́тел (bg) m (podstrekátel)
• Finnish: yllyttäjä (fi)
• German: Anstachler m
• Kapampangan: talasulsul
• Latin: impulsor m
• Polish: podżegacz (pl) m, podżegaczka f, wichrzyciel (pl) m, wichrzycielka (pl) f
• Portuguese: incitador (pt) m
• Russian: подстрека́тель (ru) m (podstrekátelʹ), подстрека́тельница (ru) f (podstrekátelʹnica)
• Tagalog: manunulsol, tagasulsol

Anagrams

• Citrine, citiner, citrine, crinite, neritic, retinic, tricine

French

Etymology

From Latin incitāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.si.te/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

inciter

1. (transitive) to urge; to impel

Usage notes

The French term inciter is a false friend of the English incite: In English, incite has a stronger, more forceful meaning.

Conjugation

Conjugation of inciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inciter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	incitant /ɛ̃.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		incité /ɛ̃.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	incite /ɛ̃.sit/	incites /ɛ̃.sit/	incite /ɛ̃.sit/	incitons /ɛ̃.si.tɔ̃/	incitez /ɛ̃.si.te/	incitent /ɛ̃.sit/
	imperfect	incitais /ɛ̃.si.tɛ/	incitais /ɛ̃.si.tɛ/	incitait /ɛ̃.si.tɛ/	incitions /ɛ̃.si.tjɔ̃/	incitiez /ɛ̃.si.tje/	incitaient /ɛ̃.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	incitai /ɛ̃.si.te/	incitas /ɛ̃.si.ta/	incita /ɛ̃.si.ta/	incitâmes /ɛ̃.si.tam/	incitâtes /ɛ̃.si.tat/	incitèrent /ɛ̃.si.tɛʁ/
	future	inciterai /ɛ̃.si.tʁe/	inciteras /ɛ̃.si.tʁa/	incitera /ɛ̃.si.tʁa/	inciterons /ɛ̃.si.tʁɔ̃/	inciterez /ɛ̃.si.tʁe/	inciteront /ɛ̃.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inciterais /ɛ̃.si.tʁɛ/	inciterais /ɛ̃.si.tʁɛ/	inciterait /ɛ̃.si.tʁɛ/	inciterions /ɛ̃.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	inciteriez /ɛ̃.si.tə.ʁje/	inciteraient /ɛ̃.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	incite /ɛ̃.sit/	incites /ɛ̃.sit/	incite /ɛ̃.sit/	incitions /ɛ̃.si.tjɔ̃/	incitiez /ɛ̃.si.tje/	incitent /ɛ̃.sit/
	imperfect2	incitasse /ɛ̃.si.tas/	incitasses /ɛ̃.si.tas/	incitât /ɛ̃.si.ta/	incitassions /ɛ̃.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	incitassiez /ɛ̃.si.ta.sje/	incitassent /ɛ̃.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	incite /ɛ̃.sit/	—	incitons /ɛ̃.si.tɔ̃/	incitez /ɛ̃.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).

Related terms

• incitation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

inciter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of incitō