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-ile
-ile 1suff. Of, relating to, or capable of: audile.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -ilis, -īlis.]
-ile 2suff. A division of a specified size in the range of a statistic: percentile.
[From -ile as in quartile, quintile, etc.]-ile suffix forming adjectives, suffix forming nounsindicating capability, liability, or a relationship with something: agile; fragile; juvenile. [via French from Latin or directly from Latin -ilis]-ile1 , var. of -able in words borrowed from Latin, orig. suffixed to verb stems ending in a labial consonant ( labile; nubile), later added to other verb stems ( agile; docile; facile; fragile). Compare -tile. [< Latin -ilis, alter. of -ibilis by haplology, as habilis able from *habibilis] -ile2 , a suffix of adjectives borrowed from Latin, meaning “pertaining to or characteristic of” the class of persons named by the stem: infantile; juvenile; puerile; virile. [< Latin -ī-lis] -ile3 , a suffix used to form words denoting the value of a statistical variable that divides a distribution into a given number of equal-sized groups, as specified by the initial element of the word: decile; percentile. [on the model of quintile or sextile] Ile isoleucine. EncyclopediaSeeIle |