asile

• asyle (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /a.zil/

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• Rhymes: -il

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.

• demandeur d’asile
• droit d’asile

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

• ailes, ailés, Élisa

asīle

1. vocative singular of asīlus

• 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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: a‧si‧le

asile

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

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