occulter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i)

Proto-Italic *op

Latin ob

Latin ob-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱéletider.

Latin *celo

Latin occulō

Latin occultusbor.

English occult

English -er

English occulter

From occult + -er.

Noun

occulter (plural occulters)

1. Any object, natural or man-made, that blocks the light of an object from an observer, typically used in reference to astronomical events.

   The moon is the occulter of the sun during a solar eclipse.

French

Etymology

From occulte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.kyl.te/

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Verb

occulter

1. (transitive) to occult

Conjugation

Conjugation of occulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	occulter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	occultant /ɔ.kyl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		occulté /ɔ.kyl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	occulte /ɔ.kylt/	occultes /ɔ.kylt/	occulte /ɔ.kylt/	occultons /ɔ.kyl.tɔ̃/	occultez /ɔ.kyl.te/	occultent /ɔ.kylt/
	imperfect	occultais /ɔ.kyl.tɛ/	occultais /ɔ.kyl.tɛ/	occultait /ɔ.kyl.tɛ/	occultions /ɔ.kyl.tjɔ̃/	occultiez /ɔ.kyl.tje/	occultaient /ɔ.kyl.tɛ/
	past historic2	occultai /ɔ.kyl.te/	occultas /ɔ.kyl.ta/	occulta /ɔ.kyl.ta/	occultâmes /ɔ.kyl.tam/	occultâtes /ɔ.kyl.tat/	occultèrent /ɔ.kyl.tɛʁ/
	future	occulterai /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁe/	occulteras /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁa/	occultera /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁa/	occulterons /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	occulterez /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁe/	occulteront /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	occulterais /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/	occulterais /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/	occulterait /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/	occulterions /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	occulteriez /ɔ.kyl.tə.ʁje/	occulteraient /ɔ.kyl.tə.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	occulte /ɔ.kylt/	occultes /ɔ.kylt/	occulte /ɔ.kylt/	occultions /ɔ.kyl.tjɔ̃/	occultiez /ɔ.kyl.tje/	occultent /ɔ.kylt/
	imperfect2	occultasse /ɔ.kyl.tas/	occultasses /ɔ.kyl.tas/	occultât /ɔ.kyl.ta/	occultassions /ɔ.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃/	occultassiez /ɔ.kyl.ta.sje/	occultassent /ɔ.kyl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	occulte /ɔ.kylt/	—	occultons /ɔ.kyl.tɔ̃/	occultez /ɔ.kyl.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).

Descendants

• → Romanian: oculta

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

occulter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of occultō