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noircir

noircir

French

Verb

noircir

  1. to blacken (make black)
  2. (reflexive) to get drunk
    • 1926, Marcel Aymé, Brûlebois, Éditions Gallimard, chap. III, 1975 ed., p. 33
      — Mais enfin, disait-il, pourquoi que tu te noircis comme ça? / — Sûrement que j'ai pas raison, répondait l'autre, quoique, dans un sens, ça soit pas mauvais de boire.

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Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscō, nigrēscere. Compare Old Provençal negrezir.

Verb

noircir

  1. to blacken (become black)

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