hisser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English hiss

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English hisser

From hiss + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪsə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪsə(ɹ)

Noun

hisser (plural hissers)

1. One who hisses.
   1. A Madagascar hissing cockroach.

Anagrams

• Hersis, Hisers, Shiers, Shires, rhesis, shiers, shires

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German hissen, compare Italian issare, Sicilian jisari.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /i.se/

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Verb

hisser

1. to hoist, to raise

   Hissez la grand-voile.

   Hoist the mainsail.

2. (reflexive) to rise through the ranks

Conjugation

Conjugation of hisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	hisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hissant /i.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hissé /i.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hisse /is/	hisses /is/	hisse /is/	hissons /i.sɔ̃/	hissez /i.se/	hissent /is/
	imperfect	hissais /i.sɛ/	hissais /i.sɛ/	hissait /i.sɛ/	hissions /i.sjɔ̃/	hissiez /i.sje/	hissaient /i.sɛ/
	past historic2	hissai /i.se/	hissas /i.sa/	hissa /i.sa/	hissâmes /i.sam/	hissâtes /i.sat/	hissèrent /i.sɛʁ/
	future	hisserai /i.sʁe/	hisseras /i.sʁa/	hissera /i.sʁa/	hisserons /i.sʁɔ̃/	hisserez /i.sʁe/	hisseront /i.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hisserais /i.sʁɛ/	hisserais /i.sʁɛ/	hisserait /i.sʁɛ/	hisserions /i.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	hisseriez /i.sə.ʁje/	hisseraient /i.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	hisse /is/	hisses /is/	hisse /is/	hissions /i.sjɔ̃/	hissiez /i.sje/	hissent /is/
	imperfect2	hissasse /i.sas/	hissasses /i.sas/	hissât /i.sa/	hissassions /i.sa.sjɔ̃/	hissassiez /i.sa.sje/	hissassent /i.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hisse /is/	—	hissons /i.sɔ̃/	hissez /i.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• hisser les voiles

Descendants

• Catalan: hissar
• Portuguese: içar
• Spanish: izar
• Italian: issare

Further reading

• “hisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012