different between anile vs anil

English

Etymology

From Latin an?lis, from anus (“old woman”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æn.a?l/
• (US) enPR: ?-n' ?l, IPA^(key): /?æ.na?l/ or enPR: ?' -n?l, IPA^(key): /?e?.na?l/

Adjective

anile (comparative more anile, superlative most anile)

1. Characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.
   • 1844, Sydney Smith, The Works of Sydney Smith, “Wittman’s Travels” (Edinburgh Review, 1803), pages 248–249

     Dr. Wittman, too, was passing over the same ground trodden by Bonaparte in his Syrian expedition, and had an ample opportunity of inquiring its probable object, and the probably success which (but for the heroic defence of Acre), might have attended it?;?he was on the theatre of Bonaparte’s imputed crimes, as well as his notorious defeat?;?and might have brought us back, not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events which must determine his character, who may determine our fate.

   • 1880, Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the mystics?:?a contribution to the history of religious opinion, page 347

     Romanticism, so sanguine and so venturous in its revolutionary youth, grew anile in its premature decrepitude?;?mumbled its credos?;?cursed its heretics?—?and died.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 8,

     Steerpike derived as much pleasure in watching these anile and pitiful creatures, dressed in their purple finery, as they crawled beneath the carpet as he got from anything.

Translations

References

• anile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• A-line, Aline, Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, aline, elain, laine, liane, linea

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ni?.le/, [ä?ni????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?ni.le/, [??ni?l?]

Adjective

an?le

1. nominative neuter singular of an?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of an?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of an?lis

English

Etymology

From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil.

Noun

anil (plural anils)

1. The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.
2. (organic chemistry) Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.
3. (organic chemistry) 1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil.

Related terms

• anilina

Descendants

• ? Irish: anail

Translations

Anagrams

• I-lan, INLA, Ilan, LNAI, Lain, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, lain, nail

Portuguese

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic ??????? (an-n?l), from Arabic ????? (n?l), from Persian ???? (nil, “indigo”), from Middle Persian, ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (n?l?, “dark blue”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??niw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??ni?/
• Hyphenation: a?nil
• Rhymes: -iw

Noun

anil m (uncountable)

1. indigo (colour)

   Synonym: indigo

See also