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bile

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English

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Etymology 1

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Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Noun

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bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

  2. 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.
  3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  4. 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 2

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

Noun

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bile (plural biles)

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

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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 […]

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  1. ^ “bile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Albanian

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Etymology 1

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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”).

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

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

Etymology 2

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

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bile

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

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  • “bile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

French

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Etymology

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From Latin bilis.

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bile f (uncountable)

  1. bile

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

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

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See béal (“lip”)

Noun

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bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. rim (of vessel)

Declension

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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

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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.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin bīlis.

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

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bile f (plural bili)

  1. (physiology) bile
  2. anger

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Latin

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Noun

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bīle

  1. ablative singular of bīlis

Norwegian Bokmål

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

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

Noun

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

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2

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From bil.

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

  1. To ride a car

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“bile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1

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

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

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2

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From bil.

Verb

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

  1. To ride a car

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“bile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

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Noun

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bile m

  1. bill of a bird
    Synonym: nebb
  2. trunk of an elephant
    Synonym: nypel

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  • English: bill

Old Irish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

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

Declension

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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

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bile bile
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin bilis.

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  • Hyphenation: bi‧le

Noun

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bile f (uncountable)

  1. gall; bile
    Synonyms: fel, bílis

Romanian

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Noun

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bile f

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

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

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

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English bill.

Noun

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bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. bill (for law)

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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

Adverb

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bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

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

Participle

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bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

Turkish

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Etymology

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

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bile

  1. neither, even

West Frisian

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

  1. axe

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

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir. This is a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

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Verb

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bile (simple past bilethe or bilo't)

  1. to boil

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 26
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