caroler
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Noun
caroler (plural carolers)
- A carol singer.
- 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party![1]:
- It's Christmas at ground zero / There's music in the air / The sleigh bells are ringing / And the carolers are singing / While the air raid sirens blare
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Old French
Etymology
From carole (“round dance with singing”) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)).
Verb
caroler
- to sing
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Puceles carolent et dancent
- Young maidens, singing and dancing
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ols, *-olt are modified to ous, out. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of caroler (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | caroler | avoir carolé | |||||
| gerund | en carolant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | carolant | ||||||
| past participle | carolé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | carol | caroles | carole | carolons | carolez | carolent |
| imperfect | caroloie, caroleie, caroloe, caroleve | caroloies, caroleies, caroloes, caroleves | caroloit, caroleit, carolot, caroleve | caroliiens, caroliens | caroliiez, caroliez | caroloient, caroleient, caroloent, carolevent | |
| preterite | carolai | carolas | carola | carolames | carolastes | carolerent | |
| future | carolerai | caroleras | carolera | carolerons | caroleroiz, carolereiz, carolerez | caroleront | |
| conditional | caroleroie, carolereie | caroleroies, carolereies | caroleroit, carolereit | caroleriiens, caroleriens | caroleriiez, caroleriez | caroleroient, carolereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | carol | carous | carout | carolons | carolez | carolent |
| imperfect | carolasse | carolasses | carolast | carolissons, carolissiens | carolissoiz, carolissez, carolissiez | carolassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | carole | — | carolons | carolez | — | ||