guillotiner

English

Etymology

guillotine +‎ -er

Noun

guillotiner (plural guillotiners)

1. An executioner who uses the guillotine.

French

Etymology

From guillotine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne/

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Verb

guillotiner

1. (transitive) to guillotine, to execute with a guillotine

Conjugation

Conjugation of guillotiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	guillotiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	guillotinant /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		guillotiné /ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	guillotine /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	guillotines /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	guillotine /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	guillotinons /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɔ̃/	guillotinez /ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne/	guillotinent /ɡi.jɔ.tin/
	imperfect	guillotinais /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɛ/	guillotinais /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɛ/	guillotinait /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɛ/	guillotinions /ɡi.jɔ.ti.njɔ̃/	guillotiniez /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nje/	guillotinaient /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	guillotinai /ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne/	guillotinas /ɡi.jɔ.ti.na/	guillotina /ɡi.jɔ.ti.na/	guillotinâmes /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nam/	guillotinâtes /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nat/	guillotinèrent /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	guillotinerai /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁe/	guillotineras /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁa/	guillotinera /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁa/	guillotinerons /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁɔ̃/	guillotinerez /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁe/	guillotineront /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	guillotinerais /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁɛ/	guillotinerais /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁɛ/	guillotinerait /ɡi.jɔ.tin.ʁɛ/	guillotinerions /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	guillotineriez /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nə.ʁje/	guillotineraient /ɡi.jɔ.tin.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	guillotine /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	guillotines /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	guillotine /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	guillotinions /ɡi.jɔ.ti.njɔ̃/	guillotiniez /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nje/	guillotinent /ɡi.jɔ.tin/
	imperfect2	guillotinasse /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nas/	guillotinasses /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nas/	guillotinât /ɡi.jɔ.ti.na/	guillotinassions /ɡi.jɔ.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	guillotinassiez /ɡi.jɔ.ti.na.sje/	guillotinassent /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	guillotine /ɡi.jɔ.tin/	—	guillotinons /ɡi.jɔ.ti.nɔ̃/	guillotinez /ɡi.jɔ.ti.ne/	—
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

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