tuile

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

• IPA^(key): /twiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: tweel, tuille

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.

• Tuile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Lieut, Lieut., utile

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.

• IPA^(key): /tɥil/

• Audio:

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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)

tuile

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

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

• utile

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɪlʲə/

tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

1. verbal noun of tuil
2. flood, flow

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tuile”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tuile”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 43

From Latin tēgula.

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. (Jersey) tile

From Proto-Celtic *toɸliyom, verbal noun of *to-ɸlinīti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.lʲe/

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. 51^b2

     .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. 25^c1

     .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

• liae
• díle
• tólae

• Middle Irish: tuile
  • Irish: tuile
  • Scottish Gaelic: tuil
  • Manx: thooilley
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: tuilid
    • Irish: tuil

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tuile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

tuile

1. genitive singular of tuil