tiule

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tēgula, as with riule, reule from rēgula; either retained through the influence of preservative analogy or reintroduced by scholars[1]. Compare also Middle French teille (“flared earthenware vessel”)[2], and Champenois teille, from the shortened Vulgar Latin *tegla.

Noun

tiule f (oblique plural tiules, nominative singular tiule, nominative plural tiules)

  1. tile (flat often square ceramic disk)

Descendants

References
  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=K9JRAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/dmf/teille2
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