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1. (n.) -ile
var. of
labile; nubile; ), later added to other verb stems (; agile; docile; facile; fragile; ).
2. -ile
a suffix of adjectives borrowed from Latin, meaning “pertaining to or characteristic of” the class of persons named by the stem:
infantile; juvenile; puerile; virile.
3. -ile
a suffix used to form words denoting the value of a statistical variable that divides a distribution into a given number of equal-sized groups, as specified by the initial element of the word:
decile; percentile.
Etymology: (on the model of quintile or sextile)
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