compiler

From Middle English compilour, from Anglo-Norman compilour, from Old French compileur, from Latin compīlātōrem, equivalent to compile +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpaɪlə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpaɪlɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)

compiler (plural compilers)

1. One who compiles.

   a compiler of poetry anthologies

   my favourite crossword compiler

   • 2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68:

     Had I travelled the same route by train (the Trans-Siberian Express, say), it would have taken me a week to get there - enough time to notice that the clocks at all the stations along the way (as well as at all other stations in the totalitarian USSR) stubbornly stuck to Moscow Time. […] That bizarre arrangement, convenient for the compilers of train timetables but highly confusing for everyone else, was in force until the early 2000s, when railway stations across Russia finally adopted local times, like everywhere else in the world.

3. (software) A computer program that transforms source code into object code.
   • 1995, Charles Calvert, Teach Yourself Windows 95 Programming in 21 Days, page 1170:

     As a result, many compilers automatically allocate blocks of memory and then parcel chunks out to programs with a suballocator when needed. That is, the compiler allocates a chunk of some 4,000 bytes and then parcels this memory out to you in bits and pieces when you need it.

   • 2013, Keith Lee, Pro Objective-C, page 24:

     The recommended Apple Objective-C compiler, Clang/LLVM (versions 4.2 and above) provides support for autosynthesis of declared properties. This means that the compiler will automatically synthesize declared properties […]

• → German: Compiler
• → Serbo-Croatian: kompajler

• complier, picromel

From Latin compīlāre.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pi.le/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

compiler

1. To compile, gather documents.

   Peux-tu compiler ces documents pour moi?

   Can you compile these documents for me?

2. (programming) to compile

   Je n'arrive pas à compiler ce programme...

   I can't manage to compile this program...

• “compiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

compīler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of compīlō

From Latin compilare (“to plunder”).

compiler

1. to compile
   • Les Faits des Romains

     Ici commence les fes des Romains, compilé ensemble de Salustes, de Suetoine et de Lucan

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ils, *-ilt are modified to is, it. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• English: compile
• French: compiler