different between bastile vs bastille

English

Noun

bastile (plural bastiles)

1. Obsolete form of bastille.

Anagrams

• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bestial, libates, stabile

English

Alternative forms

• bastile (obsolete)

Etymology

From French bastille, from Late Latin bastilia, plural of bastile, from bastire (“to build”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [bæ?st???], [bæ?sti??]

Noun

bastille (plural bastilles)

1. A castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.
2. A prison or jail.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, I.2:

     Thither arriv'd, th' advent'rous Knight / And bold Squire from their Steeds alight, / At th' outward Wall, near which there stands / A Bastile, built t' imprison Hands [...].

Translations

Verb

bastille (third-person singular simple present bastilles, present participle bastilling, simple past and past participle bastilled)

1. To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
   • 1796–7, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman, Oxford 2009, p. 137:

     Marriage had bastilled me for life.

Anagrams

• Balliets, bile salt, listable

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin bastilia, plural of bastile, from Medieval Latin bast?re (“to build, sew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.tij/
• Rhymes: -ij

Noun

bastille f (plural bastilles)

1. fortress

Further reading

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