-il
Portuguese, suffix
-il is spelled I-L (2 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,891st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -il is a Portuguese masculine suffix meaning “indicating a place for holding a specified type of animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does -il mean in English?
suffix
- 1
masculineindicating a place for holding a specified type of animal
gato (“cat”) + -il → gatil (“kennel for cats”)
suffix
- 1
femininemasculine-ile (tending to or capable of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Iniciativa Liberal
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is -il in Portuguese?
-il appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).