gésir

Inherited from Old French gesir, from Latin iacēre.

The final -ir < Latin -ēre is regular and results from the palatalization of the preceding -c- to *[d͡zʲ], as in loisir, moisir, plaisir.

• IPA^(key): /ʒe.ziʁ/

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gésir (defective)

1. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded

   Ci-gît... (formula used on gravestones) ― Here lies...

   La victime gisait dans son sang. ― The victim was lying in a pool of their own blood.

2. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to be located
3. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to be buried, hidden

• This verb is mostly archaic, but survives in the literary language and in the turn of phrase ci-gît.
• The circumflex on the ‘i’ in the third-person singular present indicative has been optional since the 1990 French spelling reforms; see gît (old spelling) and git (new spelling).

• gisant
• gisement
• gîte

• English: gist

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

• gires, grise, grisé, Régis