siler

See also: Siler, šiler, and siłer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.le/

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Verb

siler

1. (intransitive, Quebec) to whistle (make a whistling noise)

Conjugation

Conjugation of siler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	siler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	silant /si.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		silé /si.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sile /sil/	siles /sil/	sile /sil/	silons /si.lɔ̃/	silez /si.le/	silent /sil/
	imperfect	silais /si.lɛ/	silais /si.lɛ/	silait /si.lɛ/	silions /si.ljɔ̃/	siliez /si.lje/	silaient /si.lɛ/
	past historic2	silai /si.le/	silas /si.la/	sila /si.la/	silâmes /si.lam/	silâtes /si.lat/	silèrent /si.lɛʁ/
	future	silerai /sil.ʁe/	sileras /sil.ʁa/	silera /sil.ʁa/	silerons /sil.ʁɔ̃/	silerez /sil.ʁe/	sileront /sil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	silerais /sil.ʁɛ/	silerais /sil.ʁɛ/	silerait /sil.ʁɛ/	silerions /si.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	sileriez /si.lə.ʁje/	sileraient /sil.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	sile /sil/	siles /sil/	sile /sil/	silions /si.ljɔ̃/	siliez /si.lje/	silent /sil/
	imperfect2	silasse /si.las/	silasses /si.las/	silât /si.la/	silassions /si.la.sjɔ̃/	silassiez /si.la.sje/	silassent /si.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sile /sil/	—	silons /si.lɔ̃/	silez /si.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “siler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lires, relis

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ler/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ler/, [ˈsiːler]

Noun

siler n (genitive sileris); third declension

1. the spindle tree (Euonymus)
2. a kind of brook-willow

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	siler	silera
Genitive	sileris	silerum
Dative	silerī	sileribus
Accusative	siler	silera
Ablative	silere	sileribus
Vocative	siler	silera

References

• “siler”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• siler in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.