asile
See also: asilé
French edit
Alternative forms edit
- asyle (obsolete)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
asile m (plural asiles)
- asylum (place of safety or refuge)
- 1829, Victor Hugo, “Les Djinns”, in Les Orientales:
- Murs, ville, / Et port, / Asile / De mort, / Mer grise / Où brise / La brise, / Tout dort.
- Walls, town, / and port, / refuge / from death, / Grey sea / where bursts / the breeze, / all sleeps.
- retirement home, old people's home
- (colloquial) asylum (psychiatric institution)
- Synonyms: hôpital psychiatrique, asile psychiatrique
- (figurative) protection, defense
- La solitude est un asile contre les passions. ― Solitude is a defense against passions.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “asile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
asīle
References edit
- asile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ili
- Hyphenation: a‧si‧le
Verb edit
asile
- inflection of asilar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
asile
- inflection of asilar:
- second-person singular voseo imperative of asir combined with le