-ile

1. var. of

   labile; nubile

   agile; docile; facile; fragile

   Category: Affix

   Ref: -able 2; Compare -tile . 2

Origin of -ile:

< L -ilis, alter. of -ibilis by haplology, as habilis able from *habibilis

-ile

1. 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.

   Category: Affix

Origin of -ile:

< L -ī-lis

-ile

1. 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.

   Category: Affix, Statistics

Origin of -ile:

on the model of quintile or sextile

Ile

1. isoleucine.

   Category: Biochemistry