vial

• phial

From Middle English viole, fiole, from Old French fiole, from Ancient Greek φιάλη (phiálē, “a broad flat container”). Doublet of phial.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪəl
• Homophone: vile (some accents)

vial (plural vials)

1. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Revelation 16:3:

     And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

• (glass vessel): ampoule, phial, test tube, vacutainer

vial (third-person singular simple present vials, present participle vialling or (US) vialing, simple past and past participle vialled or (US) vialed)

1. (transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.

• vial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• LAIV, VALI, Vail, Vali, Vila, vail, vali, vila

• IPA^(key): /ˈvjal/

vial m (plural viaj)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbjal/ [ˈbjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: vial

vial (plural viales)

1. (relational) road, highway

vial m (plural viales)

1. avenue
2. vial

• “vial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014