tile – English noun declension

English noun forms of tile

Noun: tile
Singulartile
Pluraltiles

Sample Sentences

  • Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
  • Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
  • One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends. [2005, William T. Vollmann, “They Came Out Like Ants!”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Literature), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:]
  • Tile - Tile, a Hat. [1865, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions:]
  • 1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry and E.A. Sheppard, "Any Old Iron", British Music Hall song
  • Dressed in style, brand-new tile, And your father's old green tie on.
  • Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum, with his well-known curly-brimmed opera-hat, appeared upon the platform, there was such a universal query of "Where did you get that tile?" that he hurriedly removed it, and concealed it furtively under his chair. [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom
6. Latin -ula
7. Latin tēgulabor.
8. Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ
9. Proto-West Germanic *tigulā
10. Old English tiġele
11. Middle English tile
12. English tile
13. From Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġle (“tile, brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Doublet of tegula.
14. Cognates
15. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel (“brick”), tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick, roof tile”), Luxembourgish Zill (“brick, tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Faroese tigul (“tile”), Icelandic tigl (“brick, tile”), Norwegian Nynorsk tegl (“brick, roof tile”), Swedish tegel (“brick, tile”), Asturian teya (“tile”), Catalan teula (“tile”), French tuile (“tile”), Galician telha, tella (“roof tile”), Italian tegola (“roof tile”), Mirandese teilha (“roof tile”), Portuguese telha (“roof tile”), Spanish teja (“roof tile”), Belarusian цэ́гла (céhla, “brick”), Czech cihla (“brick”), Polish cegła (“brick”), Serbo-Croatian cígla (“brick”), Ukrainian це́гла (céhla, “brick”), Finnish tiili (“brick, tile”). See: Middle English Nouns 'tile,tyl,tigel,tiȝel,teȝele', Old English Nouns 'tiġele,tieġle,tiġle', Latin Nouns 'tēgula', Dutch Nouns 'tichel', German Nouns 'Ziegel', Icelandic Nouns 'tigl', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'tegl', Swedish Nouns 'tegel', Asturian Nouns 'teya', Catalan Nouns 'teula', French Nouns 'tuile', Galician Nouns 'telha', Italian Nouns 'tegola', Portuguese Nouns 'telha', Spanish Nouns 'teja', Czech Nouns 'cihla', Polish Nouns 'cegła', Finnish Nouns 'tiili'.

Verbs referencing "tile"

Spanish Nouns teja, Dutch Nouns tegel, Icelandic Nouns tigl, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tegl.