vaporiser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *kwapōs

Latin vapor

Old French vapeurder.

Old French vaporbor.

Middle English vapour

English vapor

English -ise

English vaporise

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English vaporiser

From vaporise + -er.

Noun

vaporiser (plural vaporisers)

1. Alternative spelling of vaporizer.

Anagrams

• overpairs

French

Etymology

From Latin vapor (whence vapeur) + -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.pɔ.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

vaporiser

1. (transitive) to vaporize (to turn into vapour)

Conjugation

Conjugation of vaporiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vaporiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vaporisant /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vaporisé /va.pɔ.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vaporise /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	vaporises /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	vaporise /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	vaporisons /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	vaporisez /va.pɔ.ʁi.ze/	vaporisent /va.pɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect	vaporisais /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	vaporisais /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	vaporisait /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	vaporisions /va.pɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	vaporisiez /va.pɔ.ʁi.zje/	vaporisaient /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	vaporisai /va.pɔ.ʁi.ze/	vaporisas /va.pɔ.ʁi.za/	vaporisa /va.pɔ.ʁi.za/	vaporisâmes /va.pɔ.ʁi.zam/	vaporisâtes /va.pɔ.ʁi.zat/	vaporisèrent /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	vaporiserai /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	vaporiseras /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	vaporisera /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	vaporiserons /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	vaporiserez /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	vaporiseront /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vaporiserais /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	vaporiserais /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	vaporiserait /va.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	vaporiserions /va.pɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	vaporiseriez /va.pɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	vaporiseraient /va.pɔ.ʁiz.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	vaporise /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	vaporises /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	vaporise /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	vaporisions /va.pɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	vaporisiez /va.pɔ.ʁi.zje/	vaporisent /va.pɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	vaporisasse /va.pɔ.ʁi.zas/	vaporisasses /va.pɔ.ʁi.zas/	vaporisât /va.pɔ.ʁi.za/	vaporisassions /va.pɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	vaporisassiez /va.pɔ.ʁi.za.sje/	vaporisassent /va.pɔ.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vaporise /va.pɔ.ʁiz/	—	vaporisons /va.pɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	vaporisez /va.pɔ.ʁi.ze/	—
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

• évaporer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• poivreras