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

• Azerbaijani: 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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Cebuano

Etymology

Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plan‧ter

Noun

planter

1. a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person

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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 Old French, from Latin plantāre, present active infinitive of plantō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃.te/

• planter

  (file)

Verb

planter

1. (transitive) to plant
2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
4. (transitive, 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

     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)

present participle		plantant /plɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle		planté /plɑ̃.te/
infinitive
simple		planter
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		plantant /plɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	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	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantes /plɑ̃t/	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/	plantent /plɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	plantasse /plɑ̃.tas/	plantasses /plɑ̃.tas/	plantât /plɑ̃.ta/	plantassions /plɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	plantassiez /plɑ̃.ta.sje/	plantassent /plɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	plante /plɑ̃t/	—	plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	plantez /plɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• plante
• plantation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parlent

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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