ressusciter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin resuscitāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.sy.si.te/

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Verb

ressusciter

1. to resurrect
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.

     With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

2. to bring back to life, to resuscitate
   • 1898, Revue du monde invisible, page 339:

     Notre imagination, si ardente qu’on la suppose, ne peut ni guérir instantanément une lésion organique, ni ressusciter un mort.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ressusciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ressusciter
	compound	avoir or être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ressuscitant /ʁe.sy.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		ressuscité /ʁe.sy.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/	ressuscites /ʁe.sy.sit/	ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/	ressuscitons /ʁe.sy.si.tɔ̃/	ressuscitez /ʁe.sy.si.te/	ressuscitent /ʁe.sy.sit/
	imperfect	ressuscitais /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/	ressuscitais /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/	ressuscitait /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/	ressuscitions /ʁe.sy.si.tjɔ̃/	ressuscitiez /ʁe.sy.si.tje/	ressuscitaient /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	ressuscitai /ʁe.sy.si.te/	ressuscitas /ʁe.sy.si.ta/	ressuscita /ʁe.sy.si.ta/	ressuscitâmes /ʁe.sy.si.tam/	ressuscitâtes /ʁe.sy.si.tat/	ressuscitèrent /ʁe.sy.si.tɛʁ/
	future	ressusciterai /ʁe.sy.si.tʁe/	ressusciteras /ʁe.sy.si.tʁa/	ressuscitera /ʁe.sy.si.tʁa/	ressusciterons /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɔ̃/	ressusciterez /ʁe.sy.si.tʁe/	ressusciteront /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ressusciterais /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/	ressusciterais /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/	ressusciterait /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/	ressusciterions /ʁe.sy.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ressusciteriez /ʁe.sy.si.tə.ʁje/	ressusciteraient /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir or être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir or être + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir or être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir or être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/	ressuscites /ʁe.sy.sit/	ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/	ressuscitions /ʁe.sy.si.tjɔ̃/	ressuscitiez /ʁe.sy.si.tje/	ressuscitent /ʁe.sy.sit/
	imperfect2	ressuscitasse /ʁe.sy.si.tas/	ressuscitasses /ʁe.sy.si.tas/	ressuscitât /ʁe.sy.si.ta/	ressuscitassions /ʁe.sy.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	ressuscitassiez /ʁe.sy.si.ta.sje/	ressuscitassent /ʁe.sy.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/	—	ressuscitons /ʁe.sy.si.tɔ̃/	ressuscitez /ʁe.sy.si.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	simple imperative of avoir or être + 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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• susciter

Further reading

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