axil

See also: áxil

English

Etymology

From Latin axilla. Doublet of axilla.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.sɪl/, /ˈæk.səl/

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• Rhymes: -æksəl
• Homophones: axel, axle
• Hyphenation: ax‧il

Noun

axil (plural axils)

1. (botany) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

   Synonym: axilla

   Near-synonyms: crotch, fork

   • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎^[1] (in English), Macmillan, page 202:

     Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

Related terms

• axillar
• axillary

Translations

angle or point of divergence

• Catalan: axil·la (ca) f
• French: aisselle (fr) f
• German: Blattachsel (de) f
• Ido: axelo (io)
• Irish: ascaill f
• Korean: 잎겨드랑이 (ipgyeodeurang'i)
• Spanish: axila (es) f
• Welsh: cesail f

See also

• axile

Anagrams

• Alix

Middle English

Alternative forms

• auxil, axle

Etymology

From a conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaksəl/

Noun

axil (plural axils)

1. axle (pole which a wheel revolves around)

Derived terms

• axiltre

Descendants

• English: axle
• Scots: aixle

References

• “axel, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 April 2018.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āgïl. Compare Turkish ağıl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈxɪl/

Noun

axil m (Arabic spelling ئاخل)

1. fenced-in area for sheep or cattle, pen, corral

Declension

Declension of axil

definite masculine gender
case	singular	plural
nominative	axil	axil
construct	axilê	axilên
oblique	axilî	axilan
demonstrative oblique	wî axilî	wan axilan
vocative	axilo	axilino
indefinite masculine gender
case	singular	plural
nominative	axilek	axilin
construct	axilekî	axiline
oblique	axilekî	axilinan

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “axil”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 15

Spanish

Adjective

axil m or f (masculine and feminine plural axiles)

1. alternative spelling of axial

Further reading

• “axil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025