essayer vs trier what difference
what is difference between essayer and trier
English
Etymology
From essay + -er.
Noun
essayer (plural essayers)
- (obsolete) One who performs an essay; an experimenter.
French
Etymology
From Middle French essayer, essaier, from Old French essaiier, essayer, essaier, from essay, essai (“attempt; assay; experiment”) + -er (“infinitive-forming suffix”), from Late Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from Latin exigere + -ium, from ex- + agere, from Proto-Italic *agō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.sɛ.je/, /e.se.je/
Verb
essayer
- (transitive) to test, to try on
- (with “de”) to try, to attempt
- J’ai essayé d’apprendre le piano.
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer’s preference).
Related terms
Further reading
- “essayer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Paronyms
- essuyer
Anagrams
- ressaye, ressayé
Middle French
Verb
essayer
- (transitive) to test
- (with “de”) to try
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
essayer n
- indefinite singular of essay
Synonyms
- essay
English
Etymology
try + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Noun
trier (plural triers)
- One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
- 1670, Robert Boyle, Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air
- ingenious trier
- 1670, Robert Boyle, Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air
- An instrument used for sampling something.
- 2009, Stephanie Clark, Michael Costello, Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)
- The judge should grasp the butter trier firmly in hand and insert the sampling device as near as possible to the center of the butter sample.
- 2009, Stephanie Clark, Michael Costello, Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)
- One who tries judicially.
- (law) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- (obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
Derived terms
- trier of fact
- cheese trier
Anagrams
- Riter, Terri
French
Etymology
From Middle French trier, from Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), from Gallo-Romance *triare (“to pick out”), a variant of Late Latin trītō, trītāre, from Latin trītus, the past participle of terō. The word sense originates from granum terere, to beat the corn from the chaff, or trier le grain in modern French, hence the meaning. Italian tritare keeps both senses of the word – to grind and to sort – confirming a common Romance origin. For loss of medial “t” see abbaye.
Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), is a false cognate of Germanic origin.
Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”), Catalan triar (“to pick, choose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁi.je/
Verb
trier
- to sort, to sort out
- Trier le tas de lettres.
- Sort (out) the pile of letters.
- Trier le tas de lettres.
- to grade; to calibrate
Conjugation
Derived terms
- trier sur le volet (“to handpick, to carefully select”)
- triage
Further reading
- “trier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tirer
Old French
Etymology
Disputed; see English try.
Verb
trier
- to choose; to select
- to sort
- to find
- to verify; to make sure of
- (law) to try (in court)
- to pull
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- → English: try
- French: trier
References
- trier on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trier)