utile

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.

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utile (comparative more utile, superlative most utile)

  1. (now rare) Useful.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:
      technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets []

Noun[edit]

utile (plural utiles)

  1. (economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
    • 2002, Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality, →ISBN, page 29:
      Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.
    • 2006, "Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013):
      [T]he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.

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Etymology[edit]

utila +‎ -e

Adverb[edit]

utile

  1. usefully

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French utile, borrowed from Latin ūtilis.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /y.til/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -il

Adjective[edit]

utile (plural utiles)

  1. useful
    Antonym: inutile

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably borrowed from Latin ūtilis.

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Adjective[edit]

utile (plural utili, superlative utilissimo)

  1. useful
    Synonym: utilizzabile
    Antonym: inutile

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Further reading[edit]

  • utile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ūtile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of ūtilis

Adverb[edit]

ūtile (comparative ūtilius, superlative ūtillimē)

  1. usefully
    Synonym: ūtiliter

Middle French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • util (masculine only)

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin utilis.

Adjective[edit]

utile m or f (plural utiles)

  1. useful

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  • French: utile

Romanian[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

utile

  1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of util