gésir
French, verb/ʒe.ziʁ/
gésir is spelled G-É-S-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written French, the 258,710th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gésir is a French verb meaning “to lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être étendu ; être couché”.
What does gésir mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded
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- 2
archaicto be located
- 3
archaicto be buried, hidden
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être étendu ; être couché. 2. Être caché, se trouver, consister.
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 gésir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- geu participle past
- gési participle past
- gis participle past
- git indicative present singular
- gît indicative present singular
- gisons first-person indicative plural
- gisez indicative plural present
- gisent indicative plural present
- gisais first-person imperfect indicative
- gisait imperfect indicative singular
- gisions first-person imperfect indicative
- gisiez imperfect indicative plural
- gisaient imperfect indicative plural
- gésis first-person historic indicative
- gisai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gésir?
- /ʒe.ziʁ/
- \ʒe.ziʁ\
- [ʒe.ziʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gésir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gésir in French?
gésir appears about once in every 68 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).