asile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zil/

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Noun

asile m (plural asiles)

1. retirement home, old people's home
2. asylum
   • 1829, Victor Hugo, "Les Djinns", in Les Orientales.

     Murs, ville, / Et port, / Asile / De mort, / Mer grise / Où brise / La brise, / Tout dort.

     Walls, town, / and port, / refuge / from death, / Grey sea / where bursts / the breeze, / all sleeps.

   Synonyms: refuge, retraite

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ailes, ailés, Élisa

Noun

asīle

1. vocative singular of asīlus

References

• asile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Verb

asile

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of asilar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of asilar
3. third-person singular imperative of asilar

Verb

asile

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of asilar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of asilar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of asilar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of asilar.