planter

English

Etymology

plant +‎ -er

Noun

planter (plural planters)

1. One who plants something.
   • 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (page 100)

     She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.

2. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
3. (historical) Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
4. A machine used for planting seeds.
5. The owner of a plantation.

Translations

box or pot

• Azeri: dibçək (az)
• Finnish: kukkalaatikko (fi), kukkaruukku (fi)

• Swedish: blomkruka (sv) c, golvkruka c, utomhuskruka c, planteringslåda c, blomlåda (sv) c, balkonglåda (sv) c
• Turkish: saksı (tr)

early English settler

• Swedish: bosättare (sv) c, kolonist (sv) c, nyodlare c

machine

• Finnish: istuttaja (fi)

• Swedish: såmaskin (sv) c

person operating a planter

• Swedish: såningsman c

owner of a plantation

• Finnish: plantaasinomistaja
• French: planteur (fr) m, planteur (fr) m

• Swedish: plantageägare c

Anagrams

• pantler, replant

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Danish

Noun

planter c

1. plural indefinite of plante

Verb

planter

1. present tense of plante

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French

Etymology

From Latin plantāre, present active infinitive of plantō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃te/

• planter

  (file)

Verb

planter

1. (transitive) to plant
2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
4. (intransitive, computing) to crash
5. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
6. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
7. (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
8. (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
   • 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, ISBN 2-207-30346-2

     Il se dit qu'il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d'une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.

Conjugation

  Conjugation of planter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		planter			avoir planté
gerund		en plantant			en ayant planté
present participle		plantant /plɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle		planté /plɑ̃.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantes /plɑ̃t/	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	plantez /plɑ̃.te/	plantent /plɑ̃t/
	imperfect	plantais /plɑ̃.tɛ/	plantais /plɑ̃.tɛ/	plantait /plɑ̃.tɛ/	plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/	plantaient /plɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic1	plantai /plɑ̃.te/	plantas /plɑ̃.ta/	planta /plɑ̃.ta/	plantâmes /plɑ̃.tam/	plantâtes /plɑ̃.tat/	plantèrent /plɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	planterai /plɑ̃.tʁe/	planteras /plɑ̃.tʁa/	plantera /plɑ̃.tʁa/	planterons /plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	planterez /plɑ̃.tʁe/	planteront /plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	planterais /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	planterais /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	planterait /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	planterions /plɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	planteriez /plɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	planteraient /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantes /plɑ̃t/	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/	plantent /plɑ̃t/
	imperfect1	plantasse /plɑ̃.tas/	plantasses /plɑ̃.tas/	plantât /plɑ̃.ta/	plantassions /plɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	plantassiez /plɑ̃.ta.sje/	plantassent /plɑ̃.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	plante /plɑ̃t/	—	plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	plantez /plɑ̃.te/	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• parlent

Further reading

• “planter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

planter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plantō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planter m, f

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present tense of plante

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• plantar

Noun

planter m, f

1. indefinite feminine plural of plante