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English

Etymology

From French tuile (“tile”). Doublet of tile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophones: tweel, tuille

Noun

tuile (plural tuiles)

1. A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes

Anagrams

• Lieut, Lieut., utile

French

Etymology

Metathesis of Old French tiule, from Latin t?gula. Doublet of tégule, a borrowing. Compare Italian tegola. Compare also Middle French teille, the Champenois form inherited from Vulgar Latin *tegla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?il/

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. tile
2. (colloquial) bad luck, misfortune

   Synonyms: accident, imprévu

3. (cooking) tuile (thin cookie)

Derived terms

Verb

tuile

1. first-person singular present indicative of tuiler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tuiler
3. second-person singular imperative of tuiler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• utile

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???l??/

Noun

tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

1. verbal noun of tuil
2. flood, flow

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Latin t?gula.

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. (Jersey) tile

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *toliyom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.l?e/

Noun

tuile n

1. verbal noun of do·lin: flowing, flooding, inundation
2. full tide

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tuile
  • Irish: tuile
  • Scottish Gaelic: tuil
  • Manx: thooilley

Related terms

• liae
• díle
• tólae

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tuile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

tuile

1. genitive singular of tuil

Mutation

English

Etymology

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Noun

tuite

1. (mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Tuite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Dutch

Verb

tuite

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tuiten

Anagrams

• uitte

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???t??/

Noun

tuite

1. genitive singular of tuit

Participle

tuite

1. Alternative form of tite (past participle of tit)

Verb

tuite

1. Alternative form of tite (present subjunctive analytic of tit)

Mutation

Latin

Participle

tuite

1. vocative masculine singular of tuitus