Wiktionary

bile

See also: bilé, bilë, bíle, bílé, -bile, bile-, and bí-lē

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidrós (“bitter”). See bitter.

NounEdit

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.
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Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

bile (plural biles)

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

VerbEdit

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 […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

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

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

ParticleEdit

bile

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

ReferencesEdit

  • “bile” on fjalorthi.com

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin bilis.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bile f (uncountable)

  1. bile

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Further readingEdit

IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

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

Etymology 2Edit

See béal (“lip”)

NounEdit

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. rim (of vessel)

DeclensionEdit

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

MutationEdit

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 readingEdit

ItalianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Probably borrowed from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

bile f (plural bili)

  1. (physiology) bile
  2. anger

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

See alsoEdit

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

bīle

  1. ablative singular of bīlis

Norwegian BokmålEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

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

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2Edit

From bil.

VerbEdit

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

  1. To ride a car

ReferencesEdit

“bile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

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

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2Edit

From bil.

VerbEdit

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

  1. To ride a car

ReferencesEdit

“bile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

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

DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Irish: bile
  • Manx: billey

MutationEdit

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.

ReferencesEdit

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

NounEdit

bile f (uncountable)

  1. gall; bile
    Synonyms: fel, bílis

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bile f

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

Scottish GaelicEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

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

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English bill.

NounEdit

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. bill (for law)

ReferencesEdit

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

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

AdverbEdit

bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

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

ParticipleEdit

bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

ConjunctionEdit

bile

  1. neither, even

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

  1. axe

Further readingEdit

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

YolaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir. It's a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

VerbEdit

bile (simple past bilethe or bilo't)

  1. to boil

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 26
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