asile

Alternative forms

• asyle (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zil/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -il

Noun

asile m (plural asiles)

1. asylum (place of safety or refuge)

   Synonyms: refuge, retraite

   • 1829, Victor Hugo, “Les Djinns”, in Les Orientales:

     Murs, ville, / Et port, / Asile / De mort, / Mer grise / Où brise / La brise, / Tout dort.

     Walls, town, / and port, / refuge / from death, / Grey sea / where bursts / the breeze, / all sleeps.

2. retirement home, old people's home
3. (colloquial) asylum (psychiatric institution)

   Synonyms: hôpital psychiatrique, asile psychiatrique

4. (figurative) protection, defense

   La solitude est un asile contre les passions. ― Solitude is a defense against passions.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ailes, ailés, Élisa

Noun

asīle

1. vocative singular of asīlus

References

• "asile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: a‧si‧le

Verb

asile

1. inflection of asilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Verb

asile

1. inflection of asilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. second-person singular voseo imperative of asir combined with le