aliter
French, verb/a.li.te/
aliter is a French verb meaning “to be bedridden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Forcer à se mettre au lit, à garder le lit”.
What does aliter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be bedridden
- 2
to cause to become bedridden
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Forcer à se mettre au lit, à garder le lit. 2. Ranger les produits de la pêche par lits successifs. 3. Se mettre, se tenir au lit pour cause de maladie. 4. Se coucher, en parlant des loups.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aliter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- alitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- alité participle past
- alite first-person indicative present
- alites indicative present second-person
- alitons first-person indicative plural
- alitez indicative plural present
- alitent indicative plural present
- alitais first-person imperfect indicative
- alitait imperfect indicative singular
- alitions first-person imperfect indicative
- alitiez imperfect indicative plural
- alitaient imperfect indicative plural
- alitai first-person historic indicative
- alitas historic indicative past
- alita historic indicative past
- alitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aliter?
- /a.li.te/
- \a.li.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aliter in French?
aliter appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).