fermenter

English

Etymology

From ferment +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Noun

fermenter (plural fermenters)

1. Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.
2. A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.
   • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 205:

     Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.

Derived terms

• biofermenter
• heterofermenter
• homofermenter
• microfermenter
• multifermenter
• non-fermenter

 

Anagrams

• re-ferment, referment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fermentāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/

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• Homophones: fermentai, fermenté, fermentée, fermentées, fermentés, fermentez

Verb

fermenter

1. (intransitive) to ferment

Conjugation

Conjugation of fermenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fermenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fermentant /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fermenté /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	fermentes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	fermentons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	fermentez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/	fermentent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	fermentais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	fermentais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	fermentait /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	fermentions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	fermentiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tje/	fermentaient /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	fermentai /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/	fermentas /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/	fermenta /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/	fermentâmes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tam/	fermentâtes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tat/	fermentèrent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	fermenterai /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	fermenteras /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	fermentera /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	fermenterons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	fermenterez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	fermenteront /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fermenterais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	fermenterais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	fermenterait /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	fermenterions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	fermenteriez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	fermenteraient /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.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	fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	fermentes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	fermentions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	fermentiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tje/	fermentent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	fermentasse /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/	fermentasses /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/	fermentât /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/	fermentassions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	fermentassiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	fermentassent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/	—	fermentons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	fermentez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.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).

Related terms

• fermentation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fermèrent, referment

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ferˈmen.ter/, [fɛrˈmɛn̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ferˈmen.ter/, [ferˈmɛn̪t̪er]

Verb

fermenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fermentō