sile

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English syle, from Old English sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).

Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”).

Alternative forms

• syle, cyle (Scotland)

Noun

sile (plural siles)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
4. (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

Etymology 2

From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) +‎ -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).

Verb

sile (third-person singular simple present siles, present participle siling, simple past and past participle siled)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
4. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.
5. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
6. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.

Noun

sile (plural siles)

1. A sieve.
2. A strainer or colander for liquids
3. That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.

Noun

sile (plural siles)

1. A young herring.

Derived terms

• sillock

Anagrams

• %iles, Elis, Iles, Isle, Leis, Lise, iles, isle, leis, lies, slie

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *siledä.

Adjective

sile (genitive sileda, partitive siledat, comparative siledam, superlative kõige siledam)

1. smooth

Declension

Further reading

• “sile”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “sile”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “sile”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• sile in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish

Etymology

Probably from Swedish gelé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsileˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification^(key): si‧le

Noun

sile (dialectal)

1. (Southwest Finnish) meat jelly

Declension

Synonyms

• aladobi

Anagrams

• Elsi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sil/

Verb

sile

1. inflection of siler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• élis, îles, isle, lies, liés, Lise, lise

Irish

Verb

sile

1. analytic present subjunctive of sil

Noun

sile

1. genitive singular of sil

Mutation

Latin

Verb

silē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sileō

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -ilɛ
• Syllabification: si‧le

Noun

sile f

1. dative/locative singular of siła

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)

1. inflection of sila:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)

1. third-person plural present of siliti

Tagalog

Etymology

Possibly a colloquial variant of sili due to /e/-/i/ allophony, or from Mexican Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsile/,
• Hyphenation: si‧le

Noun

sile (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)

1. Alternative form of sili