tuile

See also: tuilé

English

Etymology

From French tuile (“tile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: tweel, tuille

Noun

tuile (plural tuiles)

1. A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes

Anagrams

• Lieut, Lieut., utile

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French

Etymology

Metathesis of Old French tiule, from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tégule, a borrowing. Compare Italian tegola. Compare also Middle French teille, the Champenois form inherited from Vulgar Latin *tegla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɥil/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. tile
2. (colloquial) bad luck, misfortune

   Synonyms: accident, imprévu

   Il m’est arrivé une tuile. ― Something bad happened to me.

3. (cooking) tuile (thin cookie)

Derived terms

• tuileau
• tuiler
• tuilette

 

Verb

tuile

1. first-person singular present indicative of tuiler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tuiler
3. second-person singular imperative of tuiler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• utile

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɪlʲə/

Noun

tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

1. verbal noun of tuil
2. flood, flow

Declension

Declension of tuile

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tuile tuilte Vocative a thuile a thuilte Genitive tuile tuilte Dative tuile tuilte

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tuile na tuilte Genitive na tuile na dtuilte Dative leis an tuile don tuile leis na tuilte

Derived terms

• geata tuile (“floodgate”)
• maidhm thuile (“flash flood”)
• tonn tuile (“tidal wave”)
• tuile bháistí (“downpour of rain”)
• tuile fearthainne (“cloudburst”)
• tuile shléibhe (“mountain flood; cloudburst”)
• tuile thalún (“bulbous buttercup”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tuile	thuile	dtuile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tuile”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tuile”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin tēgula.

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. (Jersey) tile

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

tuile

1. genitive singular of tuil

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
tuile	thuile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.