oil

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See also oïl, and òil

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English [edit]

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Alternative forms [edit]

  • oyl (obsolete)

Etymology [edit]

Middle English oile (olive oil), from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (oil, olive oil), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (elaion, olive oil), from ἐλαία (elaía, olive). More at olive. Supplanted Old English æle, also from Latin.

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Noun [edit]

oil (plural oils)

  1. Liquid fat.
  2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  3. An oil painting.
    • 1973, John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist (page 89)
      Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.

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Verb [edit]

oil (third-person singular simple present oils, present participle oiling, simple past and past participle oiled)

  1. (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
    • 1900, L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
      Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
  2. (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking/

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Irish [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

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Noun [edit]

oil f (genitive oile)

  1. (literary) disgrace, reproach; act of reproaching
  2. (literary) blemish, defect
Declension [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

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Verb [edit]

oil (present analytic oileann, future analytic oilfidh, verbal noun oiliúint, past participle oilte)

  1. to nourish, rear, foster
  2. to train, educate
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Mutation [edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oil n-oil hoil t-oil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old French [edit]

Noun [edit]

oil m (oblique plural oils, nominative singular oils, nominative plural oil)

  1. Alternative form of ueil.