encouragier

Encouragier is not a standard entry in major French dictionaries. In contemporary use, it tends to appear as a coined or informal form rather than an established word. When a writer or translator encounters it, the intended meaning is typically the person who encourages, but this is not a recognized French noun. The standard agent noun for the verb encourager would be encourageur (masculine) or encourageuse (feminine). The suffix -ier is common in French for various roles and objects, but its combination with the verb stem encourager to form encouraging-agent terms is not conventional, making encouragier a marked or playful construction in many contexts.

Origin and relation to other terms: encourager is more regularly used in English and French to express the concept of someone who offers encouragement. Some authors may employ encouragier as a neologism, a brand name, or a stylistic choice in fiction or discourse about motivation. Because it is not standard, its interpretation relies heavily on context.

Usage and interpretation: If encountered, treat encouragier as ambiguous. For precise communication, prefer encourageur or encourageuse to denote a person who encourages, or rephrase to specify the act of encouraging. In English-language texts, one might render the sense with “encourager” as a borrowed noun or with a descriptive phrase such as “a person who encourages.”

See also: encourageur, encouragement, encourager, motivation, supporter.