sil
English edit
Noun edit
sil (uncountable)
- A yellowish pigment used by painters in ancient times.
- 2017, Pier Luigi Tucci, The Temple of Peace in Rome, page 278:
- Indeed, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder attest that in Greece ochra was the name of the yellow quality, corresponding to what the Romans called sil.
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sil
Etymology 1 edit
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Etymology 2 edit
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Etymology 3 edit
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Faroese edit
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Noun edit
sil n (genitive singular sils, plural sil)
Declension edit
Declension of sil | ||||
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n22 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sil | silið | sil | silini |
accusative | sil | silið | sil | silini |
dative | sili | silinum | siljum, silum | siljunum, silunum |
genitive | sils | silsins | silja | siljanna |
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Noun edit
sil n (genitive singular sils, plural sil)
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Declension of sil | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sil | silið | sil | silini |
accusative | sil | silið | sil | silini |
dative | sili | silinum | silum | silunum |
genitive | sils | silsins | sila | silanna |
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -il
Noun edit
sil m (plural sils)
Further reading edit
- “sil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish silid (“to drip”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sil (present analytic sileann, future analytic silfidh, verbal noun sileadh, past participle silte)
- (intransitive) to drop (fall in drops or droplets), drip (fall one drop at a time)
- (transitive) to shed (allow to flow or fall), drip (let fall in drops), weep
- (transitive, intransitive) to trickle, distil (trickle down in small drops)
- (transitive) to drain (flow gradually), flow, run
- (intransitive) to hang down, droop
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Noun edit
sil f (genitive singular sile, nominative plural sileanna)
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Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
sil | shil after an, tsil |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Istriot edit
Etymology edit
From Latin caelum. Compare Dalmatian cil.
Noun edit
sil m
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From English seal, from Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) or from Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh).
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sil (Jawi spelling سيل, plural sil-sil, informal 1st possessive silku, 2nd possessive silmu, 3rd possessive silnya)
- seal (pinniped)
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Rohingya edit
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Romanian edit
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sil.
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish silid (“to drip”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sil (past shil, future silidh, verbal noun sileadh, past participle silte)
Noun edit
sil f (genitive singular sile, plural silean)
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
sil | shil after "an", t-sil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
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sil m (Cyrillic spelling сил)
- sill (layer of igneous rock)
Squamish edit
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sil
Swedish edit
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Audio (file)
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sil c
- a strainer
- (colloquial) a dose of an injected recreational drug
Declension edit
Declension of sil | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sil | silen | silar | silarna |
Genitive | sils | silens | silars | silarnas |
See also edit
References edit
- sil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- sil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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Tarao edit
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sil
- cow (animal)
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- Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar (in Tarao)
Volapük edit
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sil (nominative plural sils)
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- sül (“heaven”)
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Irish síl (“seed; semen; offspring”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sil m (plural silod, not mutable)
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West Frisian edit
Alternative forms edit
- scil (archaic)
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sil