proscrire
French, verb/pʁɔs.kʁiʁ/
proscrire is a French verb meaning “to banish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Condamner à mort sans forme judiciaire et en publiant simplement par une affiche le nom des condamnés”.
What does proscrire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to banish
- 2
to ban, prohibit, proscribe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Condamner à mort sans forme judiciaire et en publiant simplement par une affiche le nom des condamnés. 2. Prendre certaines mesures violentes contre les personnes dans les temps de troubles civils, et spécialement, condamner au bannissement. 3. Éloigner, chasser, bannir. 4. Rejeter, abolir, supprimer.
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 proscrire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- proscrivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- proscrit participle past
- proscris first-person indicative present
- proscrivons first-person indicative plural
- proscrivez indicative plural present
- proscrivent indicative plural present
- proscrivais first-person imperfect indicative
- proscrivait imperfect indicative singular
- proscrivions first-person imperfect indicative
- proscriviez imperfect indicative plural
- proscrivaient imperfect indicative plural
- proscrivis first-person historic indicative
- proscrivit historic indicative past
- proscrivîmes first-person historic indicative
- proscrivîtes historic indicative past
- proscrivirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce proscrire?
- /pʁɔs.kʁiʁ/
- \pʁɔs.kʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to proscrire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is proscrire in French?
proscrire appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).