tuile

See also: tuilé

English

Etymology

From French tuile (tile).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twiːl/
  • Rhymes: -iːl
  • Homophones: tweel, tuille

Noun

tuile (plural tuiles)

  1. A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes
    • 2009, January 28, “Elaine Sciolino”, in With Cowbells and Oxtails, Culinary Olympics Begin:
      Finally, there was a grilled rib of beef in an herb and pistachio crust that sat on [] a cylindrical garnish of layered sweet potato and red pepper purée, pearls of glazed garlic and a thin Parmesan tuile.

Anagrams


French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɥil/
  • (file)

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

  1. tile
  2. (colloquial) bad luck, misfortune
    Synonyms: accident, imprévu
    Il m’est arrivé une tuile.Something bad happened to me.
  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

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Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɪlʲə/

Noun

tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

  1. verbal noun of tuil
  2. flood, flow

Declension

Derived terms

  • geata tuile (floodgate)
  • maidhm thuile (flash flood)
  • tonn tuile (tidal wave)
  • tuile bháistí (downpour of rain)
  • tuile fearthainne (cloudburst)
  • tuile shléibhe (mountain flood; cloudburst)
  • tuile thalún (bulbous buttercup)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tuile thuile dtuile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading


Norman

Etymology

From Latin tēgula.

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

  1. (Jersey) tile

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

tuile

  1. genitive singular of tuil

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
tuilethuile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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