coercer

From coerce + -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈɝsɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈɜːsə/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

coercer (plural coercers)

1. A person who coerces.
   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Prometheus of Aeschylus:

     Jove the binder of reluctant powers, the coercer and entrancer of free spirits under the fetters of shape and mass and passive mobility […]

• coercee

• coerce
• coercible
• coercion

From Latin coercere (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arcere (“to inclose, confine, keep off”); see arcade, arcane, ark.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɛʁ.se/

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coercer

1. to coerce, limit or restrict

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

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

Learned borrowing from Latin coercere (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arcere (“to inclose, confine, keep off”); see arcade, arcane, ark.

• IPA^(key): /koeɾˈθeɾ/ [ko.eɾˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /koeɾˈseɾ/ [ko.eɾˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: co‧er‧cer

coercer (first-person singular present coerzo, first-person singular preterite coercí, past participle coercido)

1. to coerce, limit or restrict

• “coercer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025