isle

See also: Isle, ísle, ìsle, and işle

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.

Pronunciation
  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /aɪ̯l/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪl
  • Homophones: I'll, aisle

Noun

isle (plural isles)

  1. A (small) island, compare with islet.
Derived terms
Translations
isle — see island

Noun

isle (plural isles)

  1. Obsolete spelling of aisle

Further reading
  • isle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

French

Noun

isle f (plural isles)

  1. Obsolete spelling of île

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French isle, from Latin insula.

Noun

isle f (plural isles)

  1. island

Descendants
  • French: île, ile; isle
    • Antillean Creole: zil
    • Haitian Creole: zil, zile
    • Mauritian Creole: zil

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *isula, from Latin insula.

Noun

isle f (oblique plural isles, nominative singular isle, nominative plural isles)

  1. island

Descendants

Turkish

Verb

isle

  1. second-person singular imperative of islemek
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