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Il

Il

, prefixed to words beginning with l, stands for in, as used in the Latin language, and usually denotes a negation of the sense of the simple word, as illegal, not legal; or it denotes to or on, and merely augments or enforces the sense, as in illuminate.

Definition 2024


il

il

See also: Appendix:Variations of "il"

Translingual

Alternative forms

Abbreviation

il

  1. (Internet) the Internet Top Level Domain code for Israel

Numeral

il

  1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing forty-nine (49).

See also


Azeri

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *jɨl.

Noun

il (definite accusative ili, plural illər)

  1. year

Danish

Noun

il c

  1. (rare) haste, speed

Verb

il

  1. imperative of ile

Faroese

Iljar (soles).

Noun

il f (genitive singular iljar, plural iljar)

  1. the sole of the foot
f8 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative il ilin iljar iljarnar
Accusative il ilina iljar iljarnar
Dative il ilini iljum iljunum
Genitive iljar iljarinnar ilja iljanna

French

Etymology

From Middle French il, from Old French il, from Vulgar Latin *illī, which is derived from Classical Latin ille.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /il/
  • Homophone: île
  • Rhymes: -il

Pronoun

il (third-person singular, plural ils, accusative le, dative lui, emphatic lui)

  1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
  2. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammarically masculine objects)
  3. Impersonal subject; it
    • Il pleut - It’s raining

Related terms

References

  1. Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), “il”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

Anagrams


Friulian

Friulian Definite Articles
singular plural
masculine il
l'
i
feminine  la
l'
lis

Etymology

From Latin illum, ultimately from ille.

Article

il m sg (plural i)

  1. the

See also


Icelandic

Iljar (soles).

Etymology

From Old Norse il, from Proto-Germanic *iljō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪːl

Noun

il f (genitive singular iljar, nominative plural iljar)

  1. the sole of the foot
    Honum sagðist vera illt í ilinni.
    He said his sole hurt.

Declension

Derived terms

  • frá hvirfli til ilja

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /il/

Pronoun

il (plural ili, possessive ilua, possessive plural ilui)

  1. apocopic form of ilu; he, him

Interlingua

Pronoun

il

  1. personal pronoun used with impersonal verbs
    Il ha multe arbores illac.
    There are many trees there.

Usage notes

Optional.


Italian

Etymology

From the older form lo, via an intermediate form l, from Latin illum, ultimately from ille. The initial i is a svarabhakti vowel added to the form l in order to make the pronunciation easier.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /il/

Article

Italian Definite Articles
singular plural
masculine il
lo
i
gli
feminine  la le

il m sg (plural i)

  1. the

References

  1. Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, pages 123, 124

Anagrams


Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic اَل (al-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪl/

Article

il

  1. the

Usage notes

  • Before the letters ċ, d, n, r, s, t, x, ż and z the l assimilates, resulting in the following forms:
  • This word (in all forms) connects to the following word with a hyphen
    il-mara (the woman)
    il-futur (the future)
    ix-xemx (the sun)
  • The initial i is dropped before and after vowels
    l-iben (the son)
    rajna l-film (we saw the film)
    tax-xemx (of the sun)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French il.

Pronoun

il m

  1. he
  2. it (impersonal, or referring to an unknown person)

Descendants

  • French: il

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illī, from Latin ille.

Pronoun

il

  1. he (third-person masculine singular subject pronoun)
  2. they (third-person masculine plural subject pronoun)
    • circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
      S'il vos poent ataindre, ja vos areient tué.
      If they could range you, they would have already killed you.

Descendants

  • Middle French: il
    • French: il

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁-; cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿 (filu, much), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, much), Sanskrit पुरु (puru, much).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [il]

Adjective

il

  1. much, many (usually as the first member of a compound, usually governs a plural noun)
    cosin taidbse il – "with much ostentation"
    Is amlid do·rigéni Dia corp duini ó il-ballaib. – "Thus God has made man's body of many members."
    Is ferr precept oldaas labrad il-béelre. – "Preaching is better than speaking many languages."
    trissam mrechtrad inna n-il-briathar – "through the variation of the many words"

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
il unchanged n-il
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Swedish

Noun

il c

  1. (archaic) gust; a strong, abrupt rush of wind
  2. (archaic) hurry

Declension

Inflection of il 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative il ilen ilar ilarna
Genitive ils ilens ilars ilarnas

Turkish

Noun

il

  1. province

Synonyms


Tzotzil

Alternative forms

  • 'il

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔil/

Verb

il

  1. (transitive) to see

References