vile

From Old French vil, from Latin vilis.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl
• Homophone: vial

vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)

1. Morally low; base; despicable.
2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

   I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.

• (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble

• vilify

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, veil, vlei

A formation from vjel 'to pluck, harvest'.

vile f (indefinite plural vile, definite singular vilja, definite plural vilet)

1. bunch of grape

• vjel
• vjell

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlɛ]

vile f

1. dative/locative singular of vila

From vilisema +‎ -e.

vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)

1. whistle

vile

1. feminine singular of vil

From Latin vīlis (“cheap”).

vile (masculine and feminine plural vili)

1. cowardly, dastardly

   Synonyms: codardo, vigliacco

2. base, miserable, mean

   Synonym: miserabile

3. cheap, worthless, base

   Synonym: privo di valore

vile m or f (plural vili)

1. coward

• fifone, codardo

• avvilire
• svilire

• vilmente
• viltà
• vilipendio

• levi, live, veli

vīle

1. nominative neuter singular of vīlis
2. accusative neuter singular of vīlis
3. vocative neuter singular of vīlis

• ville

From Latin vīlla.

vile f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)

1. town; city
   • 12th or 13th Century, author unknown, La Damme qui fist trois Tours:

     Ele est la fors en cele vile

     She is over there, in the city.

• French: ville

From Proto-Slavic *vidly (Russian ви́лы (víly), Czech vidle).

• IPA^(key): /ʋîle/
• Hyphenation: vi‧le

vȉle f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ле)

1. (plural only) pitchfork

• “vile” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *vidla.

• IPA^(key): /ʋìːlɛ/

víle f pl

1. pitchfork

vile

1. Vi class inflected form and adverbial form of -le.

vile

1. plural of vila