Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. · Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. · Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”). Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).
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