étêter
French, verb/e.tɛ.te/
étêter is spelled É-T-Ê-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étêter is a French verb meaning “to pollard, to trim the top of a tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tailler un arbre par la tête”.
What does étêter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pollard, to trim the top of a tree
- 2
to cut off the top of any object
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tailler un arbre par la tête. 2. Enlever la tête d'un objet quelconque. 3. Décapiter, en parlant d'un poisson.
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 étêter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- étêtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- étêté participle past
- étête first-person indicative present
- étêtes indicative present second-person
- étêtons first-person indicative plural
- étêtez indicative plural present
- étêtent indicative plural present
- étêtais first-person imperfect indicative
- étêtait imperfect indicative singular
- étêtions first-person imperfect indicative
- étêtiez imperfect indicative plural
- étêtaient imperfect indicative plural
- étêtai first-person historic indicative
- étêtas historic indicative past
- étêta historic indicative past
- étêtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étêter?
- /e.tɛ.te/
- /e.te.te/
- \e.te.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is étêter in French?
étêter appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).