trotter
See also: Trotter
English
Etymology
From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(r)
Noun
trotter (plural trotters)
- In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
- The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
Translations
a horse trained for harness racing
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the foot of a pig
the foot of a sheep
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French trotter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin *trottāre, *trotāre (“to go”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dreu-, *derə-, *drā- (“to run, escape”). Cognates: see English trot. More at tread.
Pronunciation
Verb
trotter
- (usually of a horse) to trot
Conjugation
Conjugation of trotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | trotter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | trottant /tʁɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | trotté /tʁɔ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottes /tʁɔt/ |
trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottons /tʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
trottez /tʁɔ.te/ |
trottent /tʁɔt/ |
imperfect | trottais /tʁɔ.tɛ/ |
trottais /tʁɔ.tɛ/ |
trottait /tʁɔ.tɛ/ |
trottions /tʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
trottiez /tʁɔ.tje/ |
trottaient /tʁɔ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | trottai /tʁɔ.te/ |
trottas /tʁɔ.ta/ |
trotta /tʁɔ.ta/ |
trottâmes /tʁɔ.tam/ |
trottâtes /tʁɔ.tat/ |
trottèrent /tʁɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | trotterai /tʁɔ.tʁe/ |
trotteras /tʁɔ.tʁa/ |
trottera /tʁɔ.tʁa/ |
trotterons /tʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
trotterez /tʁɔ.tʁe/ |
trotteront /tʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | trotterais /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
trotterais /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
trotterait /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
trotterions /tʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trotteriez /tʁɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
trotteraient /tʁɔ.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 | trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottes /tʁɔt/ |
trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottions /tʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
trottiez /tʁɔ.tje/ |
trottent /tʁɔt/ |
imperfect2 | trottasse /tʁɔ.tas/ |
trottasses /tʁɔ.tas/ |
trottât /tʁɔ.ta/ |
trottassions /tʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
trottassiez /tʁɔ.ta.sje/ |
trottassent /tʁɔ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | trotte /tʁɔt/ |
— | trottons /tʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
trottez /tʁɔ.te/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “trotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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