interdire

See also: interdiré

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interdicere, present active infinitive of interdīcō. In Old French, the word also existed in a more popular or gallicized form, entredire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

interdire

1. (transitive) to forbid, ban, prohibit
2. (transitive) to interdict

Conjugation

This verb is one of a group of -re verbs all ending in -dire. They are conjugated exactly like dire, but with a different second-person plural indicative present (that is, like confire). Members of this group include contredire and dédire.

Conjugation of interdire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	interdire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	interdisant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		interdit /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	interdis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdit /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdisons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɔ̃/	interdisez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ze/	interdisent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diz/
	imperfect	interdisais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɛ/	interdisais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɛ/	interdisait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɛ/	interdisions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zjɔ̃/	interdisiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zje/	interdisaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɛ/
	past historic2	interdis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdit /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdîmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dim/	interdîtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dit/	interdirent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ/
	future	interdirai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁe/	interdiras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁa/	interdira /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁa/	interdirons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	interdirez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁe/	interdiront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	interdirais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	interdirais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	interdirait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	interdirions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	interdiriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ʁje/	interdiraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.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	interdise /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diz/	interdises /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diz/	interdise /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diz/	interdisions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zjɔ̃/	interdisiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zje/	interdisent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diz/
	imperfect2	interdisse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dis/	interdisses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dis/	interdît /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	interdissions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	interdissiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.sje/	interdissent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	interdis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di/	—	interdisons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.zɔ̃/	interdisez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.di.ze/	—
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).

Synonyms

• prohiber
• défendre

Antonyms

• autoriser
• permettre

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interdicere, present active infinitive of interdīcō.

Verb

interdire

1. (transitive) to forbid, ban, prohibit
2. (transitive) to interdict

Anagrams

• intridere
• irredenti
• irridente

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Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interdīcere, present active infinitive of interdīcō. Compare the doublet entredire, entredíser.

Verb

interdire

1. (transitive) to forbid, ban, prohibit
2. (transitive) to interdict

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		interdire			aver interdisent
gerund		interdire			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		interdisent			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	interdich	interdisi	interdises	interditz	interdisèm	interdisètz
	imperfect	interdison	interdisiái	interdisiás	interdisiá	interdisiam	interdisiatz
	preterite	interdisián	interdirai	interdiràs	interdirà	interdirem	interdiretz
	future	interdiràn	interdiguèri	interdiguères	interdiguèt	interdiguèrem	interdiguèretz
	conditional	interdiguèron	interdiriái	interdiriás	interdiriá	interdiriam	interdiriatz
	conditional 2nd form1	interdigatz	{{{50}}}	{{{51}}}	{{{52}}}	{{{53}}}	{{{54}}}
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	interdirián	interdiga	interdigas	interdiga	interdigam	interdigatz
	imperfect	interdigan	interdiguèsse	interdiguèsses	interdiguèsse	interdiguèssem	interdiguèssetz
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			interdiguèsson		interdiga	interdigam	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects