bile

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See also: bilé, bilë, bílé, -bile, and bile-

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

  1. (biochemistry) 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.
  2. bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. 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[edit]

Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule.

Noun[edit]

bile (plural biles)

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

Verb[edit]

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling, simple past and past participle biled)

  1. Eye dialect 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 […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *bālnai, from Proto-Indo-European *bhḷəno, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell”), related to bolle. Compare Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”), Latin follis (“bellows”), Old Irish ball (“member, body part”) and Modern High German Bille (“penis”)

Noun[edit]

bile f

  1. penis

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bil/
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Noun[edit]

bile f (uncountable)

  1. bile

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Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. rim (of vessel)

Declension[edit]

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

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Probably borrowed from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bile f (plural bili)

  1. (physiology) bile
  2. anger

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

bīle

  1. ablative singular of bīlis

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

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

Declension[edit]

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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Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: bile
  • Manx: billey

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bile bile
pronounced with /v(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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

Noun[edit]

bile f (uncountable)

  1. gall; bile

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bill.

Noun[edit]

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. bill (for law)

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

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

Participle[edit]

bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Conjunction[edit]

bile

  1. neither, even

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

  1. axe

Further reading[edit]

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