violenter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪələntə(ɹ)/

Adjective

violenter

1. (nonstandard) comparative form of violent: more violent

Anagrams

• lovertine

French

Etymology

From the adjective violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjɔ.lɑ̃.te/

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Verb

violenter

1. (transitive) to subject to violence, commit violence upon
2. (transitive, criticized) to rape, sexually assault

Conjugation

Conjugation of violenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	violenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	violentant /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		violenté /vjɔ.lɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	violente /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	violentes /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	violente /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	violentons /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɔ̃/	violentez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.te/	violentent /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/
	imperfect	violentais /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɛ/	violentais /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɛ/	violentait /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɛ/	violentions /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	violentiez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tje/	violentaient /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	violentai /vjɔ.lɑ̃.te/	violentas /vjɔ.lɑ̃.ta/	violenta /vjɔ.lɑ̃.ta/	violentâmes /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tam/	violentâtes /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tat/	violentèrent /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	violenterai /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁe/	violenteras /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁa/	violentera /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁa/	violenterons /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	violenterez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁe/	violenteront /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	violenterais /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁɛ/	violenterais /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁɛ/	violenterait /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tʁɛ/	violenterions /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	violenteriez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	violenteraient /vjɔ.lɑ̃.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	violente /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	violentes /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	violente /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	violentions /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	violentiez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tje/	violentent /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	violentasse /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tas/	violentasses /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tas/	violentât /vjɔ.lɑ̃.ta/	violentassions /vjɔ.lɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	violentassiez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.ta.sje/	violentassent /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	violente /vjɔ.lɑ̃t/	—	violentons /vjɔ.lɑ̃.tɔ̃/	violentez /vjɔ.lɑ̃.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: 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

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

Latin

Adverb

violenter (comparative violentius, superlative violentissimē)

1. violently, impetuously, vehemently

Related terms

• violentus

References

• “violenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “violenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• violenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.