fenile

Italian

Noun

fenile m (plural fenili)

1. (organic chemistry) phenyl

Related terms

• bifenile
• fenilico

Anagrams

• feline, nefeli

Latin

Noun

fēnīle n (genitive fēnīlis); third declension

1. Alternative form of faenīle
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.67.258:

     […] flōrem ex fēnilibus atque ē praesēpibus fēnō dīlāpsum spargere priusquam crātiantur […]

     […] to sprinkle with seeds fallen out of the hay from haylofts and mangers before the weeds are harrowed […]

   • 6th C. CE, Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Germani 4.13:

     Igitur quādam vice dum cibum fessus acciperet, ingrediente Amandō monachō in fēnīle cum lūmine, carbōne dēcidente flamma faenum corripuit et ārida nūtrīmenta vorāx ignis adlambit.

     So one time while, tired, he was eating, with Amandus the monk entering the hayloft with a light, a flame from a falling coal seized the hay and the greedy fire licked the dry fodder.

   • 1888, Georg Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum II, Teubner, page 580, line 11:

     fenīle prātum

     fenīle: meadow

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēnīle	fēnīlia
Genitive	fēnīlis	fēnīlium
Dative	fēnīlī	fēnīlibus
Accusative	fēnīle	fēnīlia
Ablative	fēnīlī	fēnīlibus
Vocative	fēnīle	fēnīlia

Descendants

• French: fenil
• Italian: fienile
• Spanish: henil

References

• fenile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “faenīle” in volume VI 1, column 165, line 6 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present