bile

• IPA^(key): /baɪl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

1. (biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
2. bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
3. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
   • 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott‎:

     I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.

   • 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft‎:

     He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

• gall

Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule.

bile (plural biles)

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling, simple past and past participle biled)

1. Eye dialect spelling of boil.
   • 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy (page 130)

     We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

• -ible, Lieb

From Proto-Albanian *bālnai, from Proto-Indo-European *bhḷəno, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell”), related to bolle. Compare Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”), Latin follis (“bellows”), Old Irish ball (“member, body part”) and Modern High German Bille (“penis”)

bile f

1. penis

• bolle

• IPA^(key): /bil/

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bile f (uncountable)

1. bile

• “bile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪlʲə/

From Old Irish bile, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”).

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one
2. scion; distinguished person

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. rim (of vessel)

• "bile" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 bile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Probably borrowed from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbile/

bile f (plural bili)

1. (physiology) bile
2. anger

• fiele

• beli

bīle

1. ablative singular of bīlis

From Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”). Cognate with Latin folium, Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), and Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲilʲe/

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one

• bilech, biledach

• “1 bile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

bile f (uncountable)

1. gall; bile

• fel, bílis

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. lip (of mouth)
2. rim (of container)
3. brim (of hat)

Borrowed from English bill.

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. bill (for law)

• bilèsi

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish bile).

• IPA^(key): /bǐle/
• Hyphenation: bi‧le

bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

1. (regional) moreover, even

   bile je i on došao čak i on — even he came

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Old Turkic birle‎ (birle), from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”).

bile

1. neither, even

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bile or Middle Low German bîle, bîl (“axe”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bilją.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbilə/

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

1. axe

• “bile”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011