-ILE


Meaning of -ILE in English

■ suffix

1》 forming adjectives and nouns such as agile .

2》 Statistics forming nouns denoting a value of a variate which divides a population into the indicated number of equal-sized groups, or one of the groups itself: percentile.

Origin

var. of -il especially in adoptions from Fr.

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