ceil
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
ceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)
- (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
- 1903 June 1, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 2nd edition, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 139:
- It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel
Noun edit
ceil (plural ceils)
- (poetic) A ceiling.
- 1890, Ambrose E. Pratt, Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of Sandwich and Bourne, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 3, 1889, page 89:
- […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]
- (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
ceiling — see ceiling
Verb edit
ceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)
- (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish ceilid, from Proto-Celtic *keleti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-; compare Welsh celu, Latin cēlō, Old English helan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ceil (present analytic ceileann, future analytic ceilfidh, verbal noun ceilt, past participle ceilte)
Conjugation edit
conjugation of ceil (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
ceil | cheil | gceil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |