noircir

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscere.

• IPA^(key): /nwaʁ.siʁ/

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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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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-.

• [2] (get drunk): See s’enivrer

• noircir le tableau, noircissement, noircissure

• [1,2]: noir

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

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

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

noircir

1. to blacken (become black)

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• French: noircir