tilleul

Borrowed from French tilleul.

tilleul (uncountable)

1. A pale yellowish-green color. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Inherited from Old French tilluel, from Vulgar Latin *tiliolus, from Latin tilia. Cf. also Old French til.

• IPA^(key): /ti.jœl/

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tilleul m (plural tilleuls)

1. linden, lime (tree)

• “tilleul”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French tilluel, from Vulgar Latin *tiliōlus, from Latin tilia. Cf. also Old French til.

tilleul m (plural tilleuls)

1. (Jersey) linden, lime tree