vial

From Middle English vial, viole, a variant of fiole, phiole, phial (“small bowl or cup for liquids, etc.; flask”) [and other forms]:^[1] see further at phial.^[2] Doublet of phiale.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəl/, /ˈvaɪl/

• Audio (General American):

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• Homophone: vile (one GA pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -aɪəl, (one GA pronunciation) -aɪl
• Hyphenation: vi‧al

vial (plural vials)

1. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.

   Synonym: phial

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:3:

     And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

• ampoule
• vacutainer

• test tube

vial (third-person singular simple present vials, present participle vialling or (US) vialing, simple past and past participle vialled or (US) vialed)

1. (transitive) To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a vial (noun sense).

   Synonym: phial

• vial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “vial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• LAIV, VALI, Vail, Vali, Vila, vail, vali, vila

• IPA^(key): (Central) [biˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [viˈal]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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From Latin viālis.

vial m (plural vials)

1. lane, avenue

From English vial.

vial m (plural vials)

1. (medicine) vial

• “vial”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “vial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvjal/

vial m (plural viaj)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbjal/ [ˈbjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: vial

vía +‎ -al

vial m or f (masculine and feminine plural viales)

1. (relational) road, highway

vial m (plural viales)

1. avenue

Borrowed from English vial.

vial m (plural viales)

1. vial

• “vial”, 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