fossiliser
French, verb/fo.si.li.ze/
fossiliser is a French verb meaning “to fossilize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Minéraliser, pétrifier, en parlant des organismes contenus dans les strates sédimentaires”.
What does fossiliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fossilize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Minéraliser, pétrifier, en parlant des organismes contenus dans les strates sédimentaires. 2. Rigidifier.
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 fossiliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fossilisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fossilisé participle past
- fossilise first-person indicative present
- fossilises indicative present second-person
- fossilisons first-person indicative plural
- fossilisez indicative plural present
- fossilisent indicative plural present
- fossilisais first-person imperfect indicative
- fossilisait imperfect indicative singular
- fossilisions first-person imperfect indicative
- fossilisiez imperfect indicative plural
- fossilisaient imperfect indicative plural
- fossilisai first-person historic indicative
- fossilisas historic indicative past
- fossilisa historic indicative past
- fossilisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fossiliser?
- /fo.si.li.ze/
- /fɔ.si.li.ze/
- \fɔ.si.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fossiliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fossiliser in French?
fossiliser appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).