seoir

Inherited from Middle French seoir, from Old French seoir, from earlier sedeir, from Latin sedēre, from Proto-Italic *sedēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

• IPA^(key): /swaʁ/

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• Homophone: soir
• Rhymes: -waʁ

seoir (defective)

1. (literary) to be suitable for; to be proper for
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene I:

     L’ébranlement sied bien aux plus fermes courages

     To waver is fitting for those of firmest courage

2. (law) to be situated
3. (archaic) sit down (see also s’asseoir)

This is a defective verb, only conjugated in the third person.

• asseoir

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

• osier, seroi

From Old French seoir, from earlier sedeir, from Latin sedēre, present active infinitive of sedeō.

seoir

1. to be; to be situated
   • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     Vous devés savoir que assés près de la ou ils estoient, siet la ville de Iuberot

     You should know that quite close to there where they were, is the city of Juberot

2. (reflexive, se seoir) to sit down (be sitting)

From an earlier sedeir, from Latin sedēre.

• IPA^(key): /səˈoi̯ɾ/

seoir

1. (transitive) to sit (make someone sit)
2. (reflexive, se seoir) to sit down

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem sie distinct from the unstressed stem se, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: seoir
  • French: seoir