distiller
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
distiller (plural distillers)
- A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.
- A device or apparatus that distills, a condenser; a still.
- A company whose business is distilling, especially one that manufactures alcoholic spirits or liquor.
Related terms
Translations
a person who distills, one who owns or works in a distillery
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an apparatus that distills, a condenser, a still
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a company that distills
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dēstillāre (“to distil, to trickle”).
Pronunciation
Verb
distiller
- to distill
Conjugation
Conjugation of distiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | distiller | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | distillant /dis.ti.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | distillé /dis.ti.je/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | distille /dis.tij/ |
distilles /dis.tij/ |
distille /dis.tij/ |
distillons /dis.ti.jɔ̃/ |
distillez /dis.ti.je/ |
distillent /dis.tij/ |
imperfect | distillais /dis.ti.jɛ/ |
distillais /dis.ti.jɛ/ |
distillait /dis.ti.jɛ/ |
distillions /dis.tij.jɔ̃/ |
distilliez /dis.tij.je/ |
distillaient /dis.ti.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | distillai /dis.ti.je/ |
distillas /dis.ti.ja/ |
distilla /dis.ti.ja/ |
distillâmes /dis.ti.jam/ |
distillâtes /dis.ti.jat/ |
distillèrent /dis.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
future | distillerai /dis.tij.ʁe/ |
distilleras /dis.tij.ʁa/ |
distillera /dis.tij.ʁa/ |
distillerons /dis.tij.ʁɔ̃/ |
distillerez /dis.tij.ʁe/ |
distilleront /dis.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | distillerais /dis.tij.ʁɛ/ |
distillerais /dis.tij.ʁɛ/ |
distillerait /dis.tij.ʁɛ/ |
distillerions /dis.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
distilleriez /dis.ti.jə.ʁje/ |
distilleraient /dis.tij.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 | distille /dis.tij/ |
distilles /dis.tij/ |
distille /dis.tij/ |
distillions /dis.tij.jɔ̃/ |
distilliez /dis.tij.je/ |
distillent /dis.tij/ |
imperfect2 | distillasse /dis.ti.jas/ |
distillasses /dis.ti.jas/ |
distillât /dis.ti.ja/ |
distillassions /dis.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
distillassiez /dis.ti.ja.sje/ |
distillassent /dis.ti.jas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | distille /dis.tij/ |
— | distillons /dis.ti.jɔ̃/ |
distillez /dis.ti.je/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: distila
Further reading
- “distiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
distīller
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