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sil

sil noun: a yellowish pigment used by painters in ancient times.

Noun (1)

sil (uncountable)

  1. A yellowish pigment used by painters in ancient times.
    • Indeed, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder attest that in Greece ochra was the name of the yellow quality, corresponding to what the Romans called sil.2017, Pier Luigi Tucci, The Temple of Peace in Rome, page 278

Noun (2) capitalized: SIL

SIL (plural SILs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sibling-in-law.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sister-in-law.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of safety integrity level.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: SIL

SIL

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sil

Sil

  1. A male given name.

sil meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sil in Hindi

सिल

sil in Tamil

சில்

sil in Marathi

सिल

sil in Urdu

سل
More languagesFewer languages
sil in Telugu
సిల్
sil in Malayalam
സിൽ
sil in Kannada
ಸಿಲ್
sil in Punjabi
ਸਿਲ
sil in Nepali
सिल, सिल्

Forms of sil

pluralSILs

Origin of sil

From Latin sil (“a kind of yellow earth, ochre”).

Questions about sil

What does sil mean?
Sil means a yellowish pigment used by painters in ancient times.
What is sil in Hindi?
Sil in Hindi is सिल. See Sil meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sil?
Sil can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sil?
The plural of sil is SILs.

Words near sil in the dictionary

  1. Sikyon
  2. Sikyonian
  3. Sikyonians
  4. Sikyonic
  5. Sikyátki
  6. sil
  7. sil-green
  8. Sila
  9. sila-explosive
  10. sila-explosives
  11. silabenzene

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sil (page history and authors); SIL (page history and authors); Sil (page history and authors); sil (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sil (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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