joindre

Inherited from Old French joindre, from Latin iungere (“join”), from Proto-Italic *jungō, from Proto-Indo-European *yunégti ~ *yungénti, from the root *yewg-.

• IPA^(key): /ʒwɛ̃dʁ/

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• Hyphenation: joindre
• Rhymes: -wɛ̃dʁ

joindre

1. to join
2. to join up
3. to reach, to contact

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

• à pieds joints
• adjoindre
• disjoindre
• joindre l’utile à l’agréable
• joindre le geste à la parole
• joindre les deux bouts
• joint
• jointer
• jointure
• pièce jointe
• rejoindre

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

From Old French joindre, from Latin iungō, iungere (“join, yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”).

joindre

1. (Jersey) to join

From Latin iungere, present active infinitive of iungō (“join”).

joindre

1. to meet up with; to go and see
2. to join; to join onto
   • c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     La ou l’espaule au col se joint

     At the point where the shoulder joins onto the neck

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle English: joinen
  • English: join
• French: joindre