stabiliser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *staējō

Proto-Italic *staēō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Proto-Italic *staðlis?

Latin stabilislbor.

Old French estable

Anglo-Norman stabelbor.

Middle English stable

English stable

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ise

English stabilise

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English stabiliser

From stabilise + -er.

Noun

stabiliser (plural stabilisers)

1. (non-Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of stabilizer.
   • Sense 3 of stabilizer:
     1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:

     Another interesting feature of the Falaise is that she is provided with a Denny Brown stabiliser to minimise rolling, and amenities for the passenger include the provision of a radio telephone service, which is available on passage.

   • 2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8:

     The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work.

Derived terms

• gyrostabiliser
• horizontal stabiliser
• phytostabiliser
• soil stabiliser
• thermostabiliser

Anagrams

• tribalises

French

Etymology

From Latin stabilis +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.bi.li.ze/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

stabiliser

1. (transitive) to stabilise
2. (reflexive) to stabilise

Conjugation

Conjugation of stabiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	stabiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	stabilisant /sta.bi.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		stabilisé /sta.bi.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	stabilise /sta.bi.liz/	stabilises /sta.bi.liz/	stabilise /sta.bi.liz/	stabilisons /sta.bi.li.zɔ̃/	stabilisez /sta.bi.li.ze/	stabilisent /sta.bi.liz/
	imperfect	stabilisais /sta.bi.li.zɛ/	stabilisais /sta.bi.li.zɛ/	stabilisait /sta.bi.li.zɛ/	stabilisions /sta.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	stabilisiez /sta.bi.li.zje/	stabilisaient /sta.bi.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	stabilisai /sta.bi.li.ze/	stabilisas /sta.bi.li.za/	stabilisa /sta.bi.li.za/	stabilisâmes /sta.bi.li.zam/	stabilisâtes /sta.bi.li.zat/	stabilisèrent /sta.bi.li.zɛʁ/
	future	stabiliserai /sta.bi.liz.ʁe/	stabiliseras /sta.bi.liz.ʁa/	stabilisera /sta.bi.liz.ʁa/	stabiliserons /sta.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/	stabiliserez /sta.bi.liz.ʁe/	stabiliseront /sta.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	stabiliserais /sta.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	stabiliserais /sta.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	stabiliserait /sta.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	stabiliserions /sta.bi.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	stabiliseriez /sta.bi.li.zə.ʁje/	stabiliseraient /sta.bi.liz.ʁɛ/
(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	stabilise /sta.bi.liz/	stabilises /sta.bi.liz/	stabilise /sta.bi.liz/	stabilisions /sta.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	stabilisiez /sta.bi.li.zje/	stabilisent /sta.bi.liz/
	imperfect2	stabilisasse /sta.bi.li.zas/	stabilisasses /sta.bi.li.zas/	stabilisât /sta.bi.li.za/	stabilisassions /sta.bi.li.za.sjɔ̃/	stabilisassiez /sta.bi.li.za.sje/	stabilisassent /sta.bi.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	stabilise /sta.bi.liz/	—	stabilisons /sta.bi.li.zɔ̃/	stabilisez /sta.bi.li.ze/	—
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

• déstabiliser
• stabilisation

Related terms

• stabilité
• établir

Descendants

• → Romanian: stabiliza

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stabiliser

1. imperative of stabilisere