travestir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian travestire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/

Verb

travestir

1. (transitive) to disguise
2. (reflexive) to dress up (especially in clothes of the opposite sex)
3. (transitive, derogatory) to travesty (to make a travesty of), distort

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of travestir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	travestir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	travestissant /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		travesti /tʁa.vɛs.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestit /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestissons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/	travestissez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/	travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/
	imperfect	travestissais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	travestissais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	travestissait /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/	travestissaient /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestit /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestîmes /tʁa.vɛs.tim/	travestîtes /tʁa.vɛs.tit/	travestirent /tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/
	future	travestirai /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/	travestiras /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/	travestira /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/	travestirons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/	travestirez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/	travestiront /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	travestirais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	travestirais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	travestirait /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	travestirions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	travestiriez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁje/	travestiraient /tʁa.vɛs.ti.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	travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/	travestisses /tʁa.vɛs.tis/	travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/	travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/	travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/
	imperfect2	travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/	travestisses /tʁa.vɛs.tis/	travestît /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/	travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/	—	travestissons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/	travestissez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/	—
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).

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French travestir.

Verb

1. to dress up in drag (as members of the opposite sex)
2. to disguise, masquerade

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Spanish

Etymology

From French travestir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾabesˈtiɾ/ [t̪ɾa.β̞esˈt̪iɾ]

Verb

1. to dress up in drag (as members of the opposite sex)