-ile

Learned borrowing from Latin -īlis.

-ile

1. (no longer productive) Tending to, or capable of.
2. (statistics) Any of the values in a sorted data set that splits it into a specified number of equally sized groups.

   ‎quint- + ‎-ile → ‎quintile

   1. Any of the groups formed from the division.

      ‎quint- + ‎-ile → ‎quintile

• EIL, lie, Eli, Lie, Lei, LIE, ELI, -lie, lei, Lei.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.le/
• Rhymes: -ile
• Hyphenation: -ì‧le

Inherited from Latin -īle (forming names of enclosures for animals; more generally, forming names of places where certain goods are stored).

-ile m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ili)

1. used to form nouns indicating locations that host animals or objects

   ‎campana (“bell”) + ‎-ile → ‎campanile (“bell tower”)

   ‎porco (“pig”) + ‎-ile → ‎porcile (“pigsty”)

   ‎fieno (“hay”) + ‎-ile → ‎fienile (“hayloft”)

From Latin -īlem.

-ile m or f by sense (adjective-forming suffix, plural -ili)

1. (no longer productive) -ile (tending to or capable of)

• Lei, eli, lei

Neuter of -īlis, originally specifying the purpose of a stabulum (“stall”).

-īle n (genitive -īlis); third declension

2. Forming names of enclosures for animals; more generally, forming names of places where certain goods are stored.

   ‎sūs (“pig”) + ‎-ile → ‎suīle (“pigsty”)

   ‎fēnum (“hay”) + ‎-ile → ‎fēnīle (“hayloft”)

• Italian: -ile

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

-īle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of -īlis

Cognate with Yao (Africa) -ile (“perfect suffix”), Zigula -ire (“negative past suffix”) and Herero -èrè (“recent definite and indefinite past suffix”).

-ile

1. Suffix for creating the perfect forms of verbs

• August Seidel (1895), Handbuch der Shambala-sprache in Usambara, Deutsch-Ostafrika. Mit Texten, einem Shambala-Deutschen und einem Deutsch-Shambala-Wörterbuch‎^[2], Dresden-Leipzig, pages 19, 28-29

Inherited from Proto-Sabaki *-i̧le.

-ile

1. (obsolete) perfect aspect

   Synonym: -me- (modern standard)

   • 1728, Bwana Mwengo wa Athman, Utenzi wa Hirqal [Epic of Heraclius], transliteration and translation from Knappert (1967)^[1]:

     Athumani ondoshile / mali akiwanikia.

     Othman went / to hand over his property to them.

   • 1894, “Utenzi wa kutawafu kwe Muhammadi”, in Carl Gotthilf Büttner, editor, Anthologie aus der Suaheli-litteratur (overall work in German), stanza 122:

     Bilali aondoshile / akaikimu sala.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

This suffix triggers spirantization of the preceding consonant. See the usage note at the noun-forming suffix -i for a table.

Cognate with Shambala -ile (“perfect suffix”), Zigula -ire (“negative past suffix”) and Herero -èrè (“recent definite and indefinite past suffix”).

-ile

1. Suffix for creating the perfect forms of verbs

• Rev. Alexander Hetherwick, M.A., F.R.G.S. (1902), A Handbook of the Yao Language‎^[3], Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 53