dealer
English
Etymology
From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer (plural dealers)
- One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
- A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
- Synonym: peddler
- 1967, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “The Stranger Song”, in Songs of Leonard Cohen:
- It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
Who said they were through with dealing
- A particular type of stock broker or trader.
- The person who deals the cards in a card game.
- One who deals or metes out anything.
- 2018, Kate Stanley, Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson, page 90:
- Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]
Derived terms
Translations
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From English dealer. By surface analysis, dealen (“to deal drugs”) + -er. Doublet of deler.
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer m (plural dealers, diminutive dealertje n)
- dealer (seller of automobiles)
- Synonym: autodealer
- (informal) drug dealer
- Synonyms: drugsdealer, nachtapotheker
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer
- Alternative form of diileri.
Declension
Inflection of dealer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | dealer | dealerit | |
genitive | dealerin | dealerien dealereiden dealereitten | |
partitive | dealeria | dealereita dealereja | |
illative | dealeriin | dealereihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | dealer | dealerit | |
accusative | nom. | dealer | dealerit |
gen. | dealerin | ||
genitive | dealerin | dealerien dealereiden dealereitten | |
partitive | dealeria | dealereita dealereja | |
inessive | dealerissa | dealereissa | |
elative | dealerista | dealereista | |
illative | dealeriin | dealereihin | |
adessive | dealerilla | dealereilla | |
ablative | dealerilta | dealereilta | |
allative | dealerille | dealereille | |
essive | dealerina | dealereina | |
translative | dealeriksi | dealereiksi | |
abessive | dealeritta | dealereitta | |
instructive | — | dealerein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English deal, suffixed with -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
dealer
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | dealer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | dealant /di.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | dealé /di.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | deale /dil/ |
deales /dil/ |
deale /dil/ |
dealons /di.lɔ̃/ |
dealez /di.le/ |
dealent /dil/ |
imperfect | dealais /di.lɛ/ |
dealais /di.lɛ/ |
dealait /di.lɛ/ |
dealions /di.ljɔ̃/ |
dealiez /di.lje/ |
dealaient /di.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | dealai /di.le/ |
dealas /di.la/ |
deala /di.la/ |
dealâmes /di.lam/ |
dealâtes /di.lat/ |
dealèrent /di.lɛʁ/ | |
future | dealerai /dil.ʁe/ |
dealeras /dil.ʁa/ |
dealera /dil.ʁa/ |
dealerons /dil.ʁɔ̃/ |
dealerez /dil.ʁe/ |
dealeront /dil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | dealerais /dil.ʁɛ/ |
dealerais /dil.ʁɛ/ |
dealerait /dil.ʁɛ/ |
dealerions /di.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dealeriez /di.lə.ʁje/ |
dealeraient /dil.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 | deale /dil/ |
deales /dil/ |
deale /dil/ |
dealions /di.ljɔ̃/ |
dealiez /di.lje/ |
dealent /dil/ |
imperfect2 | dealasse /di.las/ |
dealasses /di.las/ |
dealât /di.la/ |
dealassions /di.la.sjɔ̃/ |
dealassiez /di.la.sje/ |
dealassent /di.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | deale /dil/ |
— | dealons /di.lɔ̃/ |
dealez /di.le/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer m (plural dealers, feminine dealeuse)
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English dealer, from Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere. Doublet of diler.
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer (first-person possessive dealerku, second-person possessive dealermu, third-person possessive dealernya)
Further reading
- “dealer” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer m pers (female equivalent dealerka, related adjective dealerski)
- Alternative spelling of diler
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- dealer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- dealer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- dealer in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.
Noun
dealer m (plural dealeri)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) dealer | dealerul | (niște) dealeri | dealerii |
genitive/dative | (unui) dealer | dealerului | (unor) dealeri | dealerilor |
vocative | dealerule | dealerilor |
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.
Pronunciation
Noun
dealer m (plural dealers)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/iːlə(ɹ)
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- English lemmas
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- en:Card games
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- en:Recreational drugs
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- nl:Occupations
- nl:Recreational drugs
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- Rhymes:Polish/ilɛr
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- pl:Male people
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ileɾ
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