cil
See also: CIL, cíl, cîl, and çil
Dalmatian
Alternative forms
- sil
Etymology
From Latin caelum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃil/
Noun
cil m
- sky
- heaven
French
Etymology
From Old French, according to the TLFi, borrowed from Latin cilium, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-yo-m, which is derived from *ḱel- (“to cover”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sil/
Audio (file) - Homophones: sil, scille, cils
- Rhymes: -il
Noun
cil m (plural cils)
- eyelash
Related terms
- sourcil
- déciller, dessiller
References
- Le Grand Dictionnaire Larousse, français-anglais Paris, 1995
Further reading
- “cil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Northern Kurdish
Noun
cil m
- dress, garment, clothes (apparel)
Derived terms
- cildank
- cil li xwe kirin
Old French
Adjective
cil m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cile)
- Alternative form of cel
Declension
Declension of cil
| Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Subject | cils | cile | cil |
| Oblique | cil | |||
| Plural | Subject | cil | ciles | |
| Oblique | cils |
Romagnol
Etymology
Inherited from Latin caelum.
Pronunciation
- (Southeastern Romagnol):
Noun
cil m (plural) (San Marino)
- sky
Romanian
Etymology
From French cil.
Noun
cil m (plural cili)
- cilium
Declension
Declension of cil
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cil | cilul | (niște) cili | cilii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cil | cilului | (unor) cili | cililor |
| vocative | cilule | cililor | ||
Tatar
Noun
cil
- wind
Volapük
Etymology
From English child.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t͡ʃil]
Noun
cil (nominative plural cils)
- (male or female) child
Declension
declension of cil
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cil | cils |
| genitive | cila | cilas |
| dative | cile | ciles |
| accusative | cili | cilis |
| vocative 1 | o cil! | o cils! |
| predicative 2 | cilu | cilus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Hyponyms
- hicil
- jicil
Derived terms
- cilik
- ciliko
- cilo
Related terms
- daleposcil
- hidaleposcil
- hileposcil
- hipludaleposcil
- hiposcil
- jidaleposcil
- jileposcil
- jipludaleposcil
- jiposcil
- leposcil
- pludaleposcil
- poscil
See also
- dalefat
- dalemot
- dalepal
- daleposdaut
- daleposson
- daut
- fat
- hidalepal
- hilepal
- hipal
- hipludalepal
- jidalepal
- jilepal
- jipal
- jipludalepal
- lefat
- lemot
- lepal
- leposdaut
- leposson
- mot
- pal
- pludalefat
- pludalemot
- pludalepal
- pludaleposdaut
- pludaleposson
- posdaut
- posson
- pul
- son
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiːl/
- Rhymes: -iːl
- Homophone: cul (South Wales)
Etymology 1
From Middle Welsh cylion, from Proto-Brythonic *kil, from Proto-Celtic *kūlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-lo-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Cognate with Cornish kil, Breton kil, Old Irish cúl, and Latin cūlus.
Noun
cil m (plural ciliau or cilion)
- corner (of eye, mouth, chimney)
- recess, nook
- Synonyms: cilfach, encil
- (in transferred sense) part of the harp which supports the treble-strings
- back of an edged tool
- wane (of the moon)
- Synonym: gwendid
- recess, nook
Derived terms
- cilan, cilio, encil
Compounds
- cilbost
- cilbren
- cildrem (“leer”)
- cildroi
- cildwrn
- cilddant
- ciledrych
- cilfach
- cilgant
- cilwen
- cilwg
- gwegil
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English keel.
Noun
cil m
- (nautical) keel
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), chapter CIL, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cil | gil | nghil | chil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||