asile
See also: asilé
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.zil/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -il
Noun
asile m (plural asiles)
- retirement home, old people's home
- asylum
- 1829, Victor Hugo, "Les Djinns", in Les Orientales.
- Murs, ville, / Et port, / Asile / De mort, / Mer grise / Où brise / La brise, / Tout dort.
- Walls, town, / and port, / refuge / from death, / Grey sea / where bursts / the breeze, / all sleeps.
- 1829, Victor Hugo, "Les Djinns", in Les Orientales.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “asile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
References
- asile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Spanish
Verb
asile
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