conforter

Inherited from Old French conforter, from Late Latin cōnfortāre (“strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fɔʁ.te/

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• Homophones: confortai, confortée, confortées, conforté, confortés, confortez

conforter

1. (transitive, archaic, literary) to comfort, console (more commonly réconforter)
2. (transitive) to strengthen, reinforce (a position, argument, situation)
3. (transitive) (followed by dans) to confirm (someone) in an opinion, belief, or conviction

• confortant (comforting; reinforcing)

• confort
• confortable
• confortablement
• réconforter

• “conforter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “conforter” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).

• forceront

cōnforter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnfortō

• cunforter

Learned borrowing from Late Latin confortō (“strengthen greatly”), from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).

conforter

1. to reassure
2. to comfort

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• French: conforter
• → Middle English: comforten, conforten
  • English: comfort
  • Yola: comfoort