Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to litter
Participle: littered
Gerund: littering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | litter |
| you | litter |
| he;she;it | litters |
| we | litter |
| you | litter |
| they | litter |
Perfect
| I | have littered |
| you | have littered |
| he;she;it | has littered |
| we | have littered |
| you | have littered |
| they | have littered |
Past
| I | littered |
| you | littered |
| he;she;it | littered |
| we | littered |
| you | littered |
| they | littered |
Pluperfect
| I | had littered |
| you | had littered |
| he;she;it | had littered |
| we | had littered |
| you | had littered |
| they | had littered |
Future
| I | will litter |
| you | will litter |
| he;she;it | will litter |
| we | will litter |
| you | will litter |
| they | will litter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have littered |
| you | will have littered |
| he;she;it | will have littered |
| we | will have littered |
| you | will have littered |
| they | will have littered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | litter |
| you | litter |
| he;she;it | litter |
| we | litter |
| you | litter |
| they | litter |
Perfect
| I | have littered |
| you | have littered |
| he;she;it | have littered |
| we | have littered |
| you | have littered |
| they | have littered |
Imperfect
| I | littered |
| you | littered |
| he;she;it | littered |
| we | littered |
| you | littered |
| they | littered |
Pluperfect
| I | had littered |
| you | had littered |
| he;she;it | had littered |
| we | had littered |
| you | had littered |
| they | had littered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would litter |
| you | would litter |
| he;she;it | would litter |
| we | would litter |
| you | would litter |
| they | would litter |
Perfect
| I | would have littered |
| you | would have littered |
| he;she;it | would have littered |
| we | would have littered |
| you | would have littered |
| they | would have littered |
Imperative
| you | litter |
| we | Let's litter |
| you | litter |
Verbs conjugated like 'litter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'litter'
bitter,
clitter,
flitter,
glitter,
jitter,
letter,
pitter,
titter,
witter,
atter,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, "a bed," also "bed-like vehicle carried on men's shoulders" (c.1330), from Anglo-Fr. litere "portable bed," from O.Fr. litiere, from M.L. lectaria "litter" (altered in O.Fr. by influence of lit "bed"), from L. lectus "bed, couch." Meaning extended c.1430 to "straw used for bedding" (1314 in Anglo-Fr.) and 1486 to "offspring of an animal at one birth" (in one bed); sense of "scattered oddments, disorderly debris" is first attested 1730, probably from M.E. verb literen "provide with bedding" (1398), with notion of strewing straw. The verb meaning "to strew with objects" is from 1713. Litterbug first recorded 1947. Littering "act of dropping litter" is from 1960.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.
4. Latin lectus
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
6. Proto-Italic *-āzios
7. Latin -āriusnom.
8. Latin -ārius
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
11. Proto-Italic *-ā
12. Latin -a
13. Latin -āria
14. Late Latin lectuāria
15. Old French litiere
16. Anglo-Norman literebor.
17. Middle English litere
18. English litter
19. Inherited from Middle English litere, borrowed from Anglo-Norman litere, from Old French litiere (“bedding; bed of loose straw; litter”), from Late Latin lectuāria, from Latin lectus + -āria.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the house, dotted here and there with ornamental shrubs, was now covered with frowsy tangled grass, with horseposts set up, here and there, in it, where the turf was stamped away, and the ground littered with broken pails, cobs of corn, and other slovenly remains. Here and there, a mildewed jessamine or honeysuckle hung raggedly from some ornamental support, which had been pushed to one side by [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)