exile
pronunciation
How to pronounce exile in British English:
UK [ˈeksaɪl]
How to pronounce exile in American English:
US [ˈeksaɪl]
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- Noun:
- voluntarily absent from home or country
- expelled from home or country by authority
- the act of expelling a person from their native land
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- Verb:
- expel from a country
Word Origin
- exile
- exile: [13] Latin exul meant ‘banished person’. This was formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and a prehistoric Indo-European base *ul- ‘go’ (represented also in Latin ambulāre ‘walk’, source of English amble and ambulance). From it was created the noun exilium ‘banishment’, which in Old French became essil. This was subsequently remodelled to exil, on the basis of its Latin source, and passed on to English.=> amble, ambulance
- exile (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French essillier "exile, banish, expel, drive off" (12c.), from Late Latin exilare/exsilare, from Latin exilium/exsilium "banishment, exile; place of exile," from exul "banished person," from ex- "away" (see ex-) + PIE root *al- (2) "to wander" (cognates: Greek alaomai "to wander, stray, or roam about"). In ancient times folk etymology derived the second element from Latin solum "soil." Related: Exiled; exiling.
- exile (n.)
- c. 1300, "forced removal from one's country," from Old French exil, essil (12c.), from Latin exilium "banishment; place of exile" (see exile (v.)). From c. 1300 as "a banished person," from Latin exsul, exul. Several etymologies are possible. It might be a derivative of a verb *ex-sulere 'to take out' to the root *selh- 'to take', cf. consul and consulere; hence exsul 'the one who is taken out'. It might belong to amb-ulare *-al- 'to walk', hence 'who walks out'. It might even belong to *helh-, the root of [Greek elauno] 'to drive': ex-ul 'who is driven out' [de Vaan, "Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages"]
Example
- 1. Napoleon died in exile in 1821 aged 51 .
- 2. His name was abd-ar-rahman and he was an exile .
- 3. For those of us in exile in the west , the past few months have been something like a dream .
- 4. The concert was criticised by some exile groups in the united states .
- 5. Its delegation was led by burhan ghalioun , a paris-based exile .