sedile

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sedile (plural sediles or sedilia)

1. Alternative form of sedilium (“type of seat in a church”)

• Seidel, diesel, ediles, elides, ideles, seidel

From Latin sedīle.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /seˈdi.le/

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• Rhymes: -ile
• Hyphenation: se‧dì‧le

sedile m (plural sedili)

1. seat (in a vehicle)
2. bench

• diesel

From sedeō +‎ -īle.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈdiː.le/, [s̠ɛˈd̪iːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈdi.le/, [seˈd̪iːle]

sedīle n (genitive sedīlis); third declension

1. seat, bench, stool, chair (fixed in position unlike a sella)

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• Galician: silla (from the plural sedīlia)

• “sedile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sedile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sedile 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)
• sedile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sedile”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers