sotilen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sotille, sotile, suptylen

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sotiliier, from Late Latin subtīliō; equivalent to sotil +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈtilən/, /ˈsɔtələn/, /ˈsutələn/

Verb

sotilen

1. To be insidious or deceptive; to collude towards wrong.
2. To create or design; to come up with an idea.
3. To make fluidic or airy; to reduce something's density.
4. (medicine) To lessen someone's food intake.
5. (rare) To think about the effects of an event.
6. (rare) To increase in mental acuity.
7. (rare) To become airy or refined.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sotilen (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) sotilen, sotile
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	sotile	sotiled
2nd-person singular	sotilest	sotiledest
3rd-person singular	sotileth	sotiled
subjunctive singular	sotile
imperative singular		—
plural1	sotilen, sotile	sotileden, sotilede
imperative plural	sotileth, sotile	—
participles	sotilynge, sotilende	sotiled, ysotiled

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

• “sotilen (v.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-15.