chile
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Spanish chile. A variant of chili, chilli; see that entry for more information.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪli
- Homophones: Chile (one General American pronunciation), chili, chilli, chilly
Noun[edit]
chile (plural chiles)
- (US, regional) Alternative form of chili (a chili pepper).
Translations[edit]
chili — see chili
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chile (plural chillun or chirren)
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of child.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 546:
- “I wants all the women and chillun and the old and the sick folks brought out.”
Alternative forms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: chi‧le
Noun[edit]
chile m (plural chiles)
- Alternative form of chili
Verb[edit]
chile
- inflection of chilar:
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chīlli (“pepper”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chile m (plural chiles)
- (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines) chili, chilli, chile
- (vulgar, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “chile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪli
- Rhymes:English/ɪli/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- American English
- Regional English
- English 1-syllable words
- Rhymes:English/aɪl
- Rhymes:English/aɪl/1 syllable
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Southern US English
- African-American Vernacular English
- English pronunciation spellings
- English terms with quotations
- English terms of address
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ile
- Rhymes:Spanish/ile/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Costa Rican Spanish
- Guatemalan Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Mexican Spanish
- Nicaraguan Spanish
- Philippine Spanish
- Spanish vulgarities
- Salvadorian Spanish
- es:Peppers
- es:Vegetables
- es:Spices
- es:Spices and herbs