toiler

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English toil

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English toiler

From toil + -er.

Noun

toiler (plural toilers)

A person who toils or labors.
- 1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 3, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:
  Every workingman in your city, every toiler in your country, in every country, in the whole world, is exploited and enslaved the same as you are.

Anagrams

Loiret, Lortie, loiter, triole

French

Etymology

From toile +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /twa.le/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)

Verb

toiler

to cover with cloth
(nautical) to extent the sail of a watercraft

Conjugation

Conjugation of toiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	toiler
present participle or gerund¹	simple	toilant /twa.lɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		toilé /twa.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	toile /twal/	toiles /twal/	toile /twal/	toilons /twa.lɔ̃/	toilez /twa.le/	toilent /twal/
	imperfect	toilais /twa.lɛ/	toilais /twa.lɛ/	toilait /twa.lɛ/	toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/	toiliez /twa.lje/	toilaient /twa.lɛ/
	past historic²	toilai /twa.le/	toilas /twa.la/	toila /twa.la/	toilâmes /twa.lam/	toilâtes /twa.lat/	toilèrent /twa.lɛʁ/
	future	toilerai /twal.ʁe/	toileras /twal.ʁa/	toilera /twal.ʁa/	toilerons /twal.ʁɔ̃/	toilerez /twal.ʁe/	toileront /twal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/	toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/	toilerait /twal.ʁɛ/	toilerions /twa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	toileriez /twa.lə.ʁje/	toileraient /twal.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	toile /twal/	toiles /twal/	toile /twal/	toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/	toiliez /twa.lje/	toilent /twal/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	toilasse /twa.las/	toilasses /twa.las/	toilât /twa.la/	toilassions /twa.la.sjɔ̃/	toilassiez /twa.la.sje/	toilassent /twa.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	toile /twal/	—	toilons /twa.lɔ̃/	toilez /twa.le/	—
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).

Anagrams

orteil