el
masculine
/ekˈsiljo/
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Translation
exile
Word origin
From Latin exilium ('banishment'), from exul ('a banished person'). The same root gives English 'exile'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- exilium
- English cognates
- exile
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluralexilios
Examples
escritor .
The writer spent twenty years in exile.
Muchos .
Many artists left for exile during the war.
, .
From exile, he kept writing letters to his family.
.
The end of exile allowed him to return to his homeland.
marcó .
Exile shaped forever the way he saw the world.
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