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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
utile (comparative more utile, superlative most utile)
- (now rare) Useful.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:
- technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets […]
Noun[edit]
utile (plural utiles)
- (economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
- 2006, "Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013):
- [T]he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.
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utile
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French utile, borrowed from Latin ūtilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
utile (plural utiles)
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Further reading[edit]
- “utile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably borrowed from Latin ūtilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
utile (plural utili, superlative utilissimo)
- useful
- Synonym: utilizzabile
- Antonym: inutile
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Further reading[edit]
- utile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ūtile
Adverb[edit]
ūtile (comparative ūtilius, superlative ūtillimē)
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- util (masculine only)
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
utile m or f (plural utiles)
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Descendants[edit]
- French: utile
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
utile
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