different between douter vs dout

English

Etymology

dout (“to put out”) +? -er.

Noun

douter (plural douters)

1. (obsolete) An extinguisher for candles.

Anagrams

• Drouet, detour, redout, routed, toured

French

Alternative forms

• doubter (obsolete)
• doûter (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dubit?re, present active infinitive of dubit?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.te/

Verb

douter

1. (followed by the preposition de) to doubt

2. (reflexive) to suspect, to have an inkling

Conjugation

Usage notes

Douter subordinates a subjunctive content clause when used affirmatively, but subordinates the indicative when used non-affirmatively.

Derived terms

• à n'en pas douter

Related terms

• doute
• douteux

Further reading

• “douter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• détour
• tordue

Middle French

Verb

douter

1. Alternative form of doubter

Old French

Verb

douter

1. Alternative form of doter

Conjugation

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.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

Noun

dout

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt

Etymology 2

Blend of do +? out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

Verb

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

Related terms

• douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German t?t, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deu?t/, [d???t]
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: Doud

Adjective

dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)

1. dead

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• Doud
• doutlaachen
• doutmaachen
• doutschloen
• douttrëppelen