vile
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-Norman ville, Old French vil, vile, from Latin vīlis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)
- Morally low; base; despicable.
- vile accusation
- vile man
- 2020 January 1, “Cultivating Myself Well and Helping People to Understand the Truth about Falun Dafa”, in Minghui[1]:
- People crave human decency, warmth, and sincerity even in the vilest of circumstances…
- Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.
- I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.
- vile taste
- vile smell
- vile smile
- vile substance
- vile weather
Synonyms edit
- (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
morally low
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causing repulsion
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
A formation from vjel (“to pluck, harvest”).
Noun edit
vile f (plural vile, definite vilja, definite plural vilet)
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Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vile f
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)
Declension edit
Declension of vile (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | vile | viled | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | vile | ||
genitive | vilede | ||
partitive | vilet | vilesid | |
illative | ville vilesse |
viledesse | |
inessive | viles | viledes | |
elative | vilest | viledest | |
allative | vilele | viledele | |
adessive | vilel | viledel | |
ablative | vilelt | viledelt | |
translative | vileks | viledeks | |
terminative | vileni | viledeni | |
essive | vilena | viledena | |
abessive | vileta | viledeta | |
comitative | vilega | viledega |
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
vile
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
vile (plural vili)
Noun edit
vile m or f by sense (plural vili)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- vile in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- vile in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- vile in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- vile in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- vile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Adjective edit
vīle
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vile oblique singular, f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)
- town; city
- 12th or 13th Century, author unknown, La Damme qui fist trois Tours:
- Ele est la fors en cele vile
- She is over there, in the city.
Descendants edit
- French: ville
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vidla (Russian ви́лы (víly), Czech vidle).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vȉle f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ле)
- (plural only) pitchfork
Declension edit
Declension of vile
plural | |
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nominative | vile |
genitive | vila |
dative | vilama |
accusative | vile |
vocative | vile |
locative | vilama |
instrumental | vilama |
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
vile (Cyrillic spelling виле)
References edit
- “vile” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *vidla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
víle f pl
Inflection edit
Feminine, a-stem | ||
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nominative | víle | |
genitive | víl | |
plural | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
víle | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
— | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
— | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
— | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
vílah | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
vílami |
Further reading edit
- “vile”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective edit
vile
Venetian edit
Noun edit
vile