See sotilte on Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "subtlety"
},
"expansion": "English: subtlety",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: subtlety"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "sutilté"
},
"expansion": "Old French sutilté",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "subtīlitās"
},
"expansion": "Latin subtīlitās",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sotil",
"3": "-te"
},
"expansion": "sotil + -te",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French sutilté, from Latin subtīlitās; equivalent to sotil + -te.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sotiltes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sotiltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtiltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtilte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtyletee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "soubtilite",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sotylte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "suttilte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sotyltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtilite",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sotelte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sutteltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "nouns",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "sotilte",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sotiltes"
},
"expansion": "sotilte (plural sotiltes)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Mental power or ability; smartness or cleverness"
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-CU5P8ZN~",
"links": [
[
"smartness",
"smartness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Mental power or ability; smartness or cleverness:"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An instance of mental power or ability; a smart deed:",
"An unfair argument that uses sophistry or subtlety."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-Zhtr9~Ji"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 7 14 7 11 15 11 7 4 9 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 8 13 8 9 11 11 7 4 9 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -te",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 2 26 2 20 3 16 9 2 16 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 2 26 2 20 3 15 9 2 15 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 2 26 2 17 5 12 8 2 13 11",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Liquids",
"orig": "enm:Liquids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 6 19 6 7 16 8 5 4 6 21",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Matter",
"orig": "enm:Matter",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 0 64 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Mind",
"orig": "enm:Mind",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An instance of mental power or ability; a smart deed:",
"A mental exercise, trial or challenge; a test of one's mind."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-E3BzNWjh"
},
{
"glosses": [
"An instance of mental power or ability; a smart deed:",
"A strategy or solution; a hidden method or teaching."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-iiMUxsLb"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 7 14 7 11 15 11 7 4 9 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sophistication, complexness; the state of being incomprehensible."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-dUy7PIVO"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 7 14 7 11 15 11 7 4 9 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 8 13 8 9 11 11 7 4 9 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -te",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 6 19 6 7 16 8 5 4 6 21",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Matter",
"orig": "enm:Matter",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Capability; ability in a specified domain or area."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-heYBt99S"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 7 14 7 11 15 11 7 4 9 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 8 13 8 9 11 11 7 4 9 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -te",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Deceiving, insidiousness; the concealment of one's true behaviour or goals."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-BouzBMmp"
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "No, no, God knows, whether he is a monk, a friar / A clergyman, a priest, or any other living being / Even if he sits at his studies day and night / Learning mysterious and pointless lore / It is all in vain, and worse than that! / To teach an uninitiated man this trick— / Ha! Don't think of it; it's impossible.",
"ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, Lichfield Cathedral MS. 029, leaf 175, back; republised and transcribed in Frederick J. Furnivall (editor), The Hengwrt MS of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, 1881, →OCLC, Part VI, Appendix 5, page 555, lines 839–845",
"text": "Nay nay god woot / al be he monk of frere [/] Preest or chanon̄ / or eny other wight [/] Thougħ he sitte at his book/ [sic] boþe day and nyght [/] In learnyng of his eluissħ nyce lore [/] As is in veyne / and parde moche more [/] Is to lerne a lewed man / this sotilte [/] ffy spek not þer-of / for it wol not be",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of deception, insidiousness or deceiving; a trick or ploy."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-R99G7A0k"
},
{
"glosses": [
"An ornamental meal made to resemble a famous event."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-ZvhgFRSz"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Size",
"orig": "enm:Size",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Narrowness or diminutiveness; lacking in dimensions."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-IkUZyJgk",
"links": [
[
"diminutiveness",
"diminutiveness"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 7 14 7 11 15 11 7 4 9 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 8 13 8 9 11 11 7 4 9 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -te",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 8 8 9 4 10 13 7 8 9 19",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Cooking",
"orig": "enm:Cooking",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 6 19 6 7 16 8 5 4 6 21",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Matter",
"orig": "enm:Matter",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The quality of being fluidic or lacking viscosity."
],
"id": "en-sotilte-enm-noun-YHBrag10",
"links": [
[
"fluidic",
"fluidic"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɔtil(ə)ˈteː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɔtəl(ə)ˈteː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sutəl(ə)ˈteː/"
}
],
"word": "sotilte"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Latin",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Middle English terms suffixed with -te",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Cooking",
"enm:Liquids",
"enm:Matter",
"enm:Mind",
"enm:Size"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "subtlety"
},
"expansion": "English: subtlety",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: subtlety"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "sutilté"
},
"expansion": "Old French sutilté",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "subtīlitās"
},
"expansion": "Latin subtīlitās",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sotil",
"3": "-te"
},
"expansion": "sotil + -te",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French sutilté, from Latin subtīlitās; equivalent to sotil + -te.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sotiltes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sotiltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtiltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtilte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtyletee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "soubtilite",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sotylte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "suttilte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sotyltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "subtilite",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sotelte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "sutteltee",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "nouns",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "sotilte",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sotiltes"
},
"expansion": "sotilte (plural sotiltes)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Mental power or ability; smartness or cleverness"
],
"links": [
[
"smartness",
"smartness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Mental power or ability; smartness or cleverness:"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An instance of mental power or ability; a smart deed:",
"An unfair argument that uses sophistry or subtlety."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An instance of mental power or ability; a smart deed:",
"A mental exercise, trial or challenge; a test of one's mind."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An instance of mental power or ability; a smart deed:",
"A strategy or solution; a hidden method or teaching."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Sophistication, complexness; the state of being incomprehensible."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Capability; ability in a specified domain or area."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Deceiving, insidiousness; the concealment of one's true behaviour or goals."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "No, no, God knows, whether he is a monk, a friar / A clergyman, a priest, or any other living being / Even if he sits at his studies day and night / Learning mysterious and pointless lore / It is all in vain, and worse than that! / To teach an uninitiated man this trick— / Ha! Don't think of it; it's impossible.",
"ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, Lichfield Cathedral MS. 029, leaf 175, back; republised and transcribed in Frederick J. Furnivall (editor), The Hengwrt MS of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, 1881, →OCLC, Part VI, Appendix 5, page 555, lines 839–845",
"text": "Nay nay god woot / al be he monk of frere [/] Preest or chanon̄ / or eny other wight [/] Thougħ he sitte at his book/ [sic] boþe day and nyght [/] In learnyng of his eluissħ nyce lore [/] As is in veyne / and parde moche more [/] Is to lerne a lewed man / this sotilte [/] ffy spek not þer-of / for it wol not be",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of deception, insidiousness or deceiving; a trick or ploy."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An ornamental meal made to resemble a famous event."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Narrowness or diminutiveness; lacking in dimensions."
],
"links": [
[
"diminutiveness",
"diminutiveness"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The quality of being fluidic or lacking viscosity."
],
"links": [
[
"fluidic",
"fluidic"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɔtil(ə)ˈteː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɔtəl(ə)ˈteː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sutəl(ə)ˈteː/"
}
],
"word": "sotilte"
}
Download raw JSONL data for sotilte meaning in All languages combined (4.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.