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From converse + -er.

converser (plural conversers)

1. One who converses.
   • 1850, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Plato; or, The Philosopher”, in Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […], →OCLC, page 58:

     If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.

   • 2006, Brandon Stosuy, Up is Up, But So is Down, page 205:

     I can't fathom how it will be to communicate with no one but myself. Of course the radio is no converser at that distance, with those mountains.

• conserver

Borrowed from Latin conversārī.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.vɛʁ.se/

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converser

1. (intransitive, literary) to converse

   Synonyms: deviser, discuter, s'entretenir

• conversation

• → German: konversieren

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

converser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of conversō

Learned borrowing from Latin conversō.

converser

1. to converse (discuss; talk; speak)
   • c. 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:

     Ce fut fantosme, se devient, qui antre nos a conversé

     This was a ghost, it turns out, who spoke among us

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• → English: converse
• French: converser