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-ile

-ile suffix: tending to, or capable of.

Suffix

-ile

  1. (idiomatic) Tending to, or capable of.
  2. Any of the values in a sorted data set that splits it into a specified number of equally sized groups.
    • quint- + -ile → quintile
    1. Any of the groups formed from the division.
      • quint- + -ile → quintile

Origin of -ile

Learned borrowing from Latin -ilis.

Questions about -ile

What does -ile mean?
-ile means tending to, or capable of.
What part of speech is -ile?
-ile is a suffix.

Words near -ile in the dictionary

  1. -ify
  2. -ifying
  3. -ign
  4. -ii
  5. -ikin
  6. -ile
  7. -ilide
  8. -illiard
  9. -illion
  10. -ily
  11. -im

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