citer
French, verb/si.te/
citer is spelled C-I-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,602nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Citer is a French verb meaning “to cite, quote” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assigner à comparaître devant une juridiction civile ou religieuse”.
What does citer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cite, quote
- 2
to summon
- 3
to name
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Assigner à comparaître devant une juridiction civile ou religieuse. 2. Alléguer ; rapporter. 3. Désigner le passage du livre que l’on allègue ou l’auteur de la nouvelle qu’on rapporte ; nommer celui de qui on tient une nouvelle, ou quelque chose de semblable. 4. Signaler, distinguer une personne ou une chose qui mérite d’être remarquée, de quelque manière que ce soit.
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 citer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- citant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cité participle past
- cite first-person indicative present
- cites indicative present second-person
- citons first-person indicative plural
- citez indicative plural present
- citent indicative plural present
- citais first-person imperfect indicative
- citait imperfect indicative singular
- citions first-person imperfect indicative
- citiez imperfect indicative plural
- citaient imperfect indicative plural
- citai first-person historic indicative
- citas historic indicative past
- cita historic indicative past
- citâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce citer?
- /si.te/
- \si.te\
- [si.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to citer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is citer in French?
citer appears 21 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).