surseoir

French

Etymology

From French sur (“over”) + seoir (“be fit, proper”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

surseoir

1. to defer, to postpone
2. to stay (a penal sentence)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surseoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surseoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sursoyant /syʁ.swa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sursis /syʁ.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sursois /syʁ.swa/	sursois /syʁ.swa/	sursoit /syʁ.swa/	sursoyons /syʁ.swa.jɔ̃/	sursoyez /syʁ.swa.je/	sursoient /syʁ.swa/
	imperfect	sursoyais /syʁ.swa.jɛ/	sursoyais /syʁ.swa.jɛ/	sursoyait /syʁ.swa.jɛ/	sursoyions /syʁ.swaj.jɔ̃/	sursoyiez /syʁ.swaj.je/	sursoyaient /syʁ.swa.jɛ/
	past historic2	sursis /syʁ.si/	sursis /syʁ.si/	sursit /syʁ.si/	sursîmes /syʁ.sim/	sursîtes /syʁ.sit/	sursirent /syʁ.siʁ/
	future	surseoirai /syʁ.swa.ʁe/	surseoiras /syʁ.swa.ʁa/	surseoira /syʁ.swa.ʁa/	surseoirons /syʁ.swa.ʁɔ̃/	surseoirez /syʁ.swa.ʁe/	surseoiront /syʁ.swa.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surseoirais /syʁ.swa.ʁɛ/	surseoirais /syʁ.swa.ʁɛ/	surseoirait /syʁ.swa.ʁɛ/	surseoirions /syʁ.swa.ʁjɔ̃/	surseoiriez /syʁ.swa.ʁje/	surseoiraient /syʁ.swa.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	sursoie /syʁ.swa/	sursoies /syʁ.swa/	sursoie /syʁ.swa/	sursoyions /syʁ.swaj.jɔ̃/	sursoyiez /syʁ.swaj.je/	sursoient /syʁ.swa/
	imperfect2	sursisse /syʁ.sis/	sursisses /syʁ.sis/	sursît /syʁ.si/	sursissions /syʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	sursissiez /syʁ.si.sje/	sursissent /syʁ.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sursois /syʁ.swa/	—	sursoyons /syʁ.swa.jɔ̃/	sursoyez /syʁ.swa.je/	—
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

• sursis

Further reading

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

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Old French

Alternative forms

• sourseoir
• surseer
• surseser

Verb

surseoir

1. to abstain (from)
2. to delay
3. to miss a deadline; to fail to respond

Descendants

• French: surseoir
• English: surcease

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sourseoir, supplement)
• surseer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub