vacile

See also: vacilé

Portuguese

Verb

vacile

1. inflection of vacilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /baˈθile/ [baˈθi.le]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /baˈsile/ [baˈsi.le]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification: va‧ci‧le

Etymology 1

Deverbal from vacilar.

Noun

vacile m (plural vaciles)

1. (colloquial) joke, leg-pull, mockery

   Synonym: guasa

Etymology 2

Verb

vacile

1. inflection of vacilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vacile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014