See also: tuilé

English

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A tuile arced over a crème caramel dessert

Etymology

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From French tuile (tile). Doublet of tile and tuille.

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Noun

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tuile (plural tuiles)

  1. A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes
    • 2009 January 28, Elaine Sciolino, “With Cowbells and Oxtails, Culinary Olympics Begin”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.
    • 2011 January 13, Phil Vettel, “Chef of the Year: Anthomy Martin”, in Chicago Tribune, 164th year, number 13, section 5, page 4:
      Precise herbed-lamb packets amid art nouveau swirls of asparagus noodles, a lacy tuile that adds a peekaboo seductivity to potato gnocchi — [Anthony] Martin’s presentations are bold and beautiful, yet his flavor pairings are almost maddeningly subtle, driving overanalytical foodies to despair.

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French

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /tɥil/
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Noun

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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)

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Verb

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tuile

  1. inflection of tuiler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Irish

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Noun

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tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

  1. verbal noun of tuil
  2. flood, flow

Declension

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Declension of tuile (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tuile tuilte
vocative a thuile a thuilte
genitive tuile tuilte
dative tuile tuilte
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tuile na tuilte
genitive na tuile na dtuilte
dative leis an tuile
don tuile
leis na tuilte

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of tuile
radical lenition eclipsis
tuile thuile dtuile

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin tēgula.

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tuile f (plural tuiles)

  1. (Jersey) tile

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *toliyom.

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tuile n

  1. verbal noun of do·lin: flowing, flooding, inundation
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51b2
      .i. on tuiliu
      from the flood (glossing Latin enundatione)
    • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 25c1
      .i. teora cethramdin huare aequinocht indid mailliu a tuile ar cach óen-laithiu
      i.e. three-quarters of an equinoctial hour by which the flood is slower day by day.
  2. full tide

Inflection

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tuileN tuileL tuileL
Vocative tuileN tuileL tuileL
Accusative tuileN tuileL tuileL
Genitive tuiliL tuileL tuileN
Dative tuiliuL tuilib tuilib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: tuile

Mutation

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Mutation of tuile
radical lenition nasalization
tuile thuile tuile
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Scottish Gaelic

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Noun

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tuile

  1. genitive singular of tuil

Mutation

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Mutation of tuile
radical lenition
tuile thuile

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.