rosser

See also: Rosser and Rösser

English

Noun

rosser (plural rossers)

1. (UK, slang) Alternative form of rozzer (“police officer”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔsər

Adjective

rosser

1. comparative degree of ros

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French roissier, probably from Vulgar Latin *rustiare, from *rustia, from Late Latin rustum, or less likely from Vulgar Latin *ruptiāre, from Latin ruptus, from rumpō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.se/

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Verb

rosser

1. to beat
2. (slang) to hammer, to thrash, to defeat

Conjugation

Conjugation of rosser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rosser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rossant /ʁɔ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rossé /ʁɔ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rosse /ʁɔs/	rosses /ʁɔs/	rosse /ʁɔs/	rossons /ʁɔ.sɔ̃/	rossez /ʁɔ.se/	rossent /ʁɔs/
	imperfect	rossais /ʁɔ.sɛ/	rossais /ʁɔ.sɛ/	rossait /ʁɔ.sɛ/	rossions /ʁɔ.sjɔ̃/	rossiez /ʁɔ.sje/	rossaient /ʁɔ.sɛ/
	past historic2	rossai /ʁɔ.se/	rossas /ʁɔ.sa/	rossa /ʁɔ.sa/	rossâmes /ʁɔ.sam/	rossâtes /ʁɔ.sat/	rossèrent /ʁɔ.sɛʁ/
	future	rosserai /ʁɔ.sʁe/	rosseras /ʁɔ.sʁa/	rossera /ʁɔ.sʁa/	rosserons /ʁɔ.sʁɔ̃/	rosserez /ʁɔ.sʁe/	rosseront /ʁɔ.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rosserais /ʁɔ.sʁɛ/	rosserais /ʁɔ.sʁɛ/	rosserait /ʁɔ.sʁɛ/	rosserions /ʁɔ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	rosseriez /ʁɔ.sə.ʁje/	rosseraient /ʁɔ.sʁɛ/
(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	rosse /ʁɔs/	rosses /ʁɔs/	rosse /ʁɔs/	rossions /ʁɔ.sjɔ̃/	rossiez /ʁɔ.sje/	rossent /ʁɔs/
	imperfect2	rossasse /ʁɔ.sas/	rossasses /ʁɔ.sas/	rossât /ʁɔ.sa/	rossassions /ʁɔ.sa.sjɔ̃/	rossassiez /ʁɔ.sa.sje/	rossassent /ʁɔ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rosse /ʁɔs/	—	rossons /ʁɔ.sɔ̃/	rossez /ʁɔ.se/	—
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: 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).

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French roissier, from Vulgar Latin *rustiare, from *rustia, from Late Latin rustum.

Verb

rosser

1. (Jersey) to thrash