cil

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪl]

cil

1. second-person singular imperative of cílit

• sil

From Latin caelum.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃil/

cil m

1. sky
2. heaven

Inherited from Old French cil, from Latin cilium.

• IPA^(key): /sil/

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• Homophones: sil, scille, cils
• Rhymes: -il

cil m (plural cils)

1. eyelash

• sourcil
• déciller, dessiller

• Le Grand Dictionnaire Larousse, français-anglais Paris, 1995

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

cil m

1. dress, garment, clothes (apparel)

• cildank
• cil li xwe kirin

cil m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cile)

1. alternative form of cel

Inherited from Latin caelum.

• (Southeastern Romagnol):

cil m (uncountable) (San Marino)

1. sky

Borrowed from French cil.

cil m (plural cili)

1. cilium

cil

1. wind

From English child.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃil]

cil (nominative plural cils)

1. (male or female) child
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 15:

     Ob it egivob ciles et magodis ot.

     I have given those children the same pictures myself.

   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: V:

     Beatiks püdikodans binons, ibä ponemons cils Goda.

     Blessed are the peacemakers: they shall be recognised as children of God.

• hicil
• jicil

• cilik
• ciliko
• cilo

• IPA^(key): /kiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophone: cul (“narrow”) (South Wales)

From Middle Welsh cylion, from Proto-Brythonic *kil, from Proto-Celtic *kūlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-lo-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Cognate with Cornish kil, Breton kil, Old Irish cúl, and Latin cūlus.

cil m (plural ciliau or cilion)

1. corner (of eye, mouth, chimney)
   1. recess, nook

      Synonyms: cilfach, encil

   2. (in transferred sense) part of the harp which supports the treble-strings
   3. back of an edged tool
   4. wane (of the moon)

      Synonym: gwendid

• cilan, cilio, encil

Borrowed from English keel.

cil m

1. (nautical) keel

   Synonyms: cilbren, cêl, celbren, trumben, gwaelod llong

• cilbren (“keel”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies