vile

See also: vīle, vīlē, and víle

English

Etymology

From Old French vil, from Latin vilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl
• Homophone: vial

Adjective

vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)

1. Morally low; base; despicable.
2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

   I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.

Synonyms

• (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble

Derived terms

• vilify

Translations

morally low

• Armenian: զազրելի (hy) (zazreli), նողկալի (hy) (noġkali), ստոր (hy) (stor), պիղծ (hy) (piġc)
• Catalan: vil (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卑鄙 (zh) (bēibǐ)

• Czech: hnusný (cs), odporný (cs)
• Dutch: verachtelijk (nl)
• Finnish: katala (fi), alhainen (fi)
• French: vil (fr)
• Galician: vil m or f
• Georgian: უნამუსო (unamuso), საძაგელი (saʒageli), საზიზღარი (sazizɣari), ბილწი (bilc̣i)
• German: abscheulich (de), gemein (de), schnöde (de)
• Greek: πρόστυχος (el) m (próstychos), χυδαίος (el) m (chydaíos)
• Hungarian: hitvány (hu), aljas (hu)
• Icelandic: viðbjóðslegur (is), andstyggilegur (is)
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• Italian: abietto (it), basso (it), ignobile (it)
• Japanese: 卑しい (iyashii), 汚い (ja) (kitanai), 卑劣な (ja) (hiretsu na)
• Khmer: ទាប (km) (tiep)
• Korean: 사악한 (saakhan)
• Latvian: zemisks, nekrietns, netikumisks, netikumīgs
• Macedonian: низок m (nizok), долен m (dolen), омразен m (omrazen)
• Old English: earg
• Polish: podły (pl), niecny (pl)
• Portuguese: vil (pt)
• Russian: гну́сный (ru) (gnúsnyj), по́длый (ru) (pódlyj), ни́зкий (ru) (nízkij), ме́рзкий (ru) (mérzkij)
• Spanish: vil (es)
• Turkish: alçak (tr)

causing repulsion

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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• Finnish: inhottava (fi)
• Hungarian: ocsmány (hu), visszataszító (hu), undorító (hu)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, veil, vlei

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Albanian

Etymology

A formation from vjel (“to pluck, harvest”).

Noun

vile f (plural vile, definite vilja, definite plural vilet)

1. bunch of grape

Related terms

• vjel
• vjell

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlɛ]

Noun

vile f

1. dative/locative singular of vila

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Estonian

Etymology

From vilisema +‎ -e.

Noun

vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)

1. whistle

Declension

Declension of vile (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		vile	viled
accusative	nom.
	gen.	vile
genitive			vilede
partitive		vilet	vilesid
illative		ville vilesse	viledesse
inessive		viles	viledes
elative		vilest	viledest
allative		vilele	viledele
adessive		vilel	viledel
ablative		vilelt	viledelt
translative		vileks	viledeks
terminative		vileni	viledeni
essive		vilena	viledena
abessive		vileta	viledeta
comitative		vilega	viledega

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French

Adjective

vile

1. feminine singular of vil

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīlis (“cheap”).

Adjective

1. cowardly, dastardly

   Synonyms: codardo, vigliacco

2. base, miserable, mean

   Synonym: miserabile

3. cheap, worthless, base

   Synonym: privo di valore

Noun

vile m or f (plural vili)

1. coward

Synonyms

• fifone, codardo

Derived terms

• avvilire
• svilire

Related terms

• vilmente
• viltà
• vilipendio

Anagrams

• levi, live, veli

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) vīle

1. nominative neuter singular of vīlis
2. accusative neuter singular of vīlis
3. vocative neuter singular of vīlis

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Old French

Alternative forms

• ville

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vīlla.

Noun

vile oblique singular, f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)

1. town; city
   • 12th or 13th Century, author unknown, La Damme qui fist trois Tours:

     Ele est la fors en cele vile

     She is over there, in the city.

Descendants

• French: ville

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidly (Russian ви́лы (víly), Czech vidle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋîle/
• Hyphenation: vi‧le

Noun

vȉle f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ле)

1. (plural only) pitchfork

Declension

Declension of vile

	plural
nominative	vile
genitive	vila
dative	vilama
accusative	vile
vocative	vile
locative	vilama
instrumental	vilama

References

• “vile” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋìːlɛ/

Noun

víle f pl

1. pitchfork

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	víle
genitive	víl
	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	víle
genitive (rodȋlnik)	víl
dative (dajȃlnik)	vílam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	víle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	vílah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	vílami

Further reading

• “vile”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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Swahili

Adjective

vile

1. Vi class inflected form and adverbial form of -le.

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Venetian

Noun

vile

1. plural of vila