Noun: rille
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | rille |
| Plural f | rilles |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like rille
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French reille (“small plank”), from Latin rēgula. Cognate with English rail and rule. Doublet of rail (from English), règle (a semi-learned borrowing), reille (from Old French), and rigole (via Middle Dutch). See: Latin Nouns '
rēgula', English Nouns '
rail'.
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