different between toile vs toise

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French toile. Doublet of tela.

Noun

toile (countable and uncountable, plural toiles)

1. plain or simple twilled fabric

Anagrams

• Eliot, Leoti, lie to, teloi

French

Etymology

From Old French toile, earlier teile, from Latin t?la.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twal/

Noun

toile f (plural toiles)

1. fabric, cloth; canvas
2. painting (artwork)
3. (spider's) web
4. Alternative letter-case form of Toile

Derived terms

Related terms

• toilier

Descendants

• German: Toilette

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ilote

Middle English

Etymology 1

Most likely from Anglo-Norman toilier, but possibly from Middle Dutch tuylen.

Verb

toile

1. Alternative form of toilen

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman toile.

Noun

toile

1. Alternative form of toyle

Old French

Etymology

From earlier form teile, from Latin t?la.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?toi?.l?/

Noun

toile f (oblique plural toiles, nominative singular toile, nominative plural toiles)

1. fabric
2. web

Descendants

• French: toile

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

toile f

1. genitive singular of toil

English

Etymology

From French toise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??z/

Noun

toise (plural toises)

1. (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.

Anagrams

• ETSOI, OSETI, osite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twaz/

Etymology 1

From Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from Latin t?nsa (bracchia) (“outstretched (arms)”), from tend? (“stretch”).

Noun

toise f (plural toises)

1. toise
2. height gauge

Derived terms

• toiser

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

toise

1. first-person singular present indicative of toiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of toiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
5. second-person singular imperative of toiser

Anagrams

• ostie

Further reading

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

Irish

Alternative forms

• tois

Etymology

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Noun

toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

1. Alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
2. size, measure, measurement
3. dimension

Declension

Derived terms

• aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)

Mutation

Further reading

• "toise" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “toise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “toise” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.