# sile
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saɪl/
* Rhymes: -aɪl

### Etymology 1

From Middle English syle, from Old English sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).
Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”).

#### Alternative forms

* syle, cyle (Scotland)

#### Noun

sile (plural siles)
* (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
* (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
* (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
* (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) +‎ -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).

#### Verb

sile (third-person singular simple present siles, present participle siling, simple past and past participle siled)
* (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.

#### Noun

sile (plural siles)
* A sieve.
* A strainer or colander for liquids
* That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.

#### Noun

sile (plural siles)
* A young herring.

##### Derived terms

* sillock

### Anagrams

* isle, Iles, Lise, leis, %iles, Elis, lies, slie, iles, Isle, ELIs, Leis

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *siledä.

### Adjective

sile (genitive sileda, partitive siledat, comparative siledam, superlative kõige siledam)
* smooth

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “sile”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
* “sile”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “sile”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* sile in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Finnish
### Etymology

Probably from Swedish gelé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsileˣ/, [ˈs̠ile̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ile
* Syllabification: si‧le

### Noun

sile (dialectal)
* (Southwest Finnish) meat jelly

#### Declension

Possessive forms of sile (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) :

#### Synonyms

* aladobi

### Anagrams

* Elsi

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sil/

### Verb

sile
* inflection of siler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* élis, îles, isle, lies, liés, Lise, lise

## Irish
### Verb

sile
* analytic present subjunctive of sil

### Noun

sile
* genitive singular of sil

### Mutation
## Latin
### Verb

silē
* second-person singular present active imperative of sileō

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɕilɛ/
* Rhymes: -ilɛ
* Syllabification: si‧le

### Noun

sile f
* dative/locative singular of siła

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)
* inflection of sila:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Verb

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)
* third-person plural present of siliti

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Possibly a colloquial variant of sili due to /e/-/i/ allophony, or from Mexican Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsile/ [ˈsiː.lɛ]
* Rhymes: -ile
* Syllabification: si‧le

### Noun

sile (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)
* Alternative form of sili