braille

• Braille

Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaɪ/ (approximating French pronunciation; uncommon)
• Rhymes: -aɪ

braille (countable and uncountable, plural brailles)

1. A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
   • 1963, S. C. Ashcroft, Freda Henderson, Programmed Instruction in Braille, Stanwix House, →ISBN, page 6:

     Another difficulty which causes literature in braille to remain scarce is the cumbersomeness of the process of producing braille books.

The Braille Authority of North America recommends using lower-case braille for the script, and reserving capital Braille for the man. However, the script is commonly capitalized as well. In British English, the capitalised form Braille is preferred.

braille (third-person singular simple present brailles, present participle brailling, simple past and past participle brailled)

1. To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.

   I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.

   • 1967, Carlton Fredericks, Federal Trade Commission Decisions, volume 71, page 237:

     the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled

2. (informal, by extension) to identify something by touch.

braille (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to or written in braille.

• braille on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Briella, Liberal, liberal

• Braille (unofficial)

Borrowed from French braille.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraːi̯ə/

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• Hyphenation: brail‧le

braille n (uncountable)

1. braille

• IPA^(key): /bʁaj/

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Named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852).

braille m (plural brailles)

1. braille
   • 2004, “Catalogue”, in Bâtards Sensibles, performed by TTC:

     Tu nous sens venir / Ou tu veux qu'on te parle en braille ?

     Do you feel us coming / Or do you want us to speak to you in braille?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

braille

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

• “braille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bâiller, libéral

Borrowed from English braille.

braille m (genitive singular braille)

1. braille

   Synonym: scríbhneoireacht bhraille

• cló bhraille m (“braille type”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “braille”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “braille”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• “braille”, in The National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge, 2006–2025

braille

1. alternative form of brayle

• braile (nonstandard)

Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852).

• Rhymes: -ajli, -ajlɨ
• Hyphenation: brail‧le

braille m (plural brailles)

1. braille (system of writing using raised dots)

Тhis word’s standard spelling utilizes doubled ⟨ll⟩ because it is derived from a foreign given name. For the same reason, the spelling with a single ⟨l⟩ is nonstandard.^[1]

• “braille”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “braille”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “braille”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “braille”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

• Syllabification: brai‧lle

braille m (uncountable)

1. braille

• “braille”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “braille, en minúscula, con elle y en redonda”, in Fundéu (in Spanish), 2 January 2020, retrieved 26 January 2024