il

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Number 1.1.1 See also 2 Azeri 2.1 Noun 3 Danish 3.1 Noun 3.2 Verb 4 French 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Pronoun 4.3.1 Related terms 4.4 References 4.5 Anagrams 5 Icelandic 5.1 Noun 6 Italian 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Article 6.3 References 7 Middle French 7.1 Pronoun 8 Old Irish 8.1 Alternative spellings 8.2 Etymology 8.3 Adjective 9 Swedish 9.1 Noun 10 Turkish 10.1 Noun 10.1.1 Synonyms

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Number

il

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing forty-nine (49).

[edit] See also

• Alternate forms: IL, XLIX, xlix
• Previous: iil (forty-eight, 48)
• Next: l (fifty, 50)

---

[edit] Azeri

[edit] Noun

il

1. year

---

[edit] Danish

[edit] Noun

il c.

1. (rare) haste, speed

[edit] Verb

il

1. Imperative of ile.

---

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Vulgar Latin illī, which is related to Classical Latin ille.^[1]

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: /il/, SAMPA: /il/
• Homophones: île

[edit] Pronoun

il (third person singular, plural ils, object lui, emphatic lui)

1. He, it.

[edit] Related terms

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964). “il”, Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French). Paris: Librairie Larousse.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: il
• li

---

[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Noun

il

1. sole (of the foot)

---

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

From Old Italian lo, via an intermediate form l. The initial i is a svarabhakti vowel added to the form l in order to make the pronunciation easier.^[1]

[edit] Article

il m. sg. (pl.: i)

1. the.

	masculine	feminine
singular	il, lo	la, l'
plural	i, gli	le

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002). Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), p. 123, 124, Bologna: il Mulino. ISBN 88-15-08638-2.

---

[edit] Middle French

[edit] Pronoun

il m.

1. he
2. it (impersonal, or refering to an unknown person)

---

[edit] Old Irish

[edit] Alternative spellings

• hil

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁-; cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿 (filu), “‘much’”), Greek πολύς (polus), “‘much’”), Sanskrit पुरु (puru), “‘much’”).

[edit] Adjective

il

1. much, many (usually as the first member of a compound, usually governs a plural noun)

   cosin taidbse il – "with much ostentation"

   Is amlid do·rigéni Dia corp duini ó il-ballaib. – "Thus God has made man's body of many members."

   Is ferr precept oldaas labrad il-béelre. – "Preaching is better than speaking many languages."

   trissam mrechtrad inna n-il-briathar – "through the variation of the many words"

---

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

Inflection for il	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	il	ilen	ilar	ilarna
Possessive form	ils	ilens	ilars	ilarnas

il

1. (archaic) gust; a strong, abrupt rush of wind
2. (archaic) hurry

---

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Noun

il

1. province

[edit] Synonyms

• vilayet