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bile

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bile"

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: bīl, IPA(key): /baɪl/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1 edit

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Noun edit

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

  1. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  2. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
    • 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott‎[1]:
      I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.
    • 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft‎[2]:
      He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.
Synonyms edit
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Etymology 2 edit

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

Noun edit

bile (plural biles)

  1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).[1]

Verb edit

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling or bileing, simple past and past participle biled)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.
    • 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy, page 130:
      We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

References edit

  1. ^ “bile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

Albanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Either related to bolle pl (“testicles”), or a singularized plural of *bilë, from Proto-Albanian *beila, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike, beat”), in which case close to Proto-Germanic *bilją (“spike, peg, nail, axe, sword, blade”). Compare English bill, German Bille (“axe”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bile f (plural bile, definite bilja, definite plural bilet)

  1. (childish) weenie (penis)
Declension edit
Declension of bile
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative bile bile bilja bilet
accusative bilen
dative bileje bileve biles bileve
ablative bilesh

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Particle edit

bile

  1. (colloquial) Reinforces what has already been said; even, in fact, furthermore
    Synonym: madje
    bile bile ― as a matter of fact

References edit

  • “bile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

French edit

Etymology edit

From Latin bilis.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bile f (uncountable)

  1. bile

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Further reading edit

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish bile, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”).

Noun edit

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one
  2. scion; distinguished person
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See béal (“lip”)

Noun edit

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. rim (of vessel)

Declension edit

Declension of bile

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bile bilí
Vocative a bhile a bhilí
Genitive bile bilí
Dative bile bilí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bile na bilí
Genitive an bhile na mbilí
Dative leis an mbile

don bhile

leis na bilí

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bile bhile mbile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Italian edit

 
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin bīlis.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: bì‧le

Noun edit

bile f (plural bili)

  1. (physiology) bile
  2. anger

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

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Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Noun edit

bīle

  1. ablative singular of bīlis

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Middle Low German bīle (“axe”).

Noun edit

bile f or m (definite singular bila or bilen, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2 edit

From bil.

Verb edit

bile (present tense biler, past tense bilte, past participle bilt)

  1. To ride a car

References edit

“bile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Middle Low German bīle (“axe”).

Noun edit

bile f (definite singular bila, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2 edit

From bil.

Verb edit

bile (present tense bilar or biler, past tense bila or bilte, past participle bila or bilt)

  1. To ride a car

References edit

“bile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”). Cognate with Latin folium, Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), and Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

  1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one

Declension edit

Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bile bileL biliL
Vocative bili bileL biliu
Accusative bileN bileL biliuH
Genitive biliL bileL bileN
Dative biliuL bilib bilib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: bile
  • Manx: billey

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bile bile
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: bi‧le

Noun edit

bile f (uncountable)

  1. gall; bile
    Synonyms: fel, bílis

Romanian edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bile f

  1. inflection of bilă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish bél (“lip”).[1] Related to beul.

Noun edit

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. lip (of mouth)
  2. rim (of container)
  3. brim (of hat)

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English bill.

Noun edit

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. bill (for law)

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بیله (bile) (Turkish bile).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bǐle/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧le

Adverb edit

bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

  1. (regional) moreover, even
    bile je i on došao čak i on
    even he came

Participle edit

bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish بیله (bile), from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”). Cognate with Turkish ile.

Conjunction edit

bile

  1. neither, even

West Frisian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bile or Middle Low German bîle, bîl (“axe”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bilją.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

  1. axe

Further reading edit

  • “bile”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir. This is a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

bile (simple past bilethe or bilo't)

  1. to boil

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26
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