pila

pila

1. plural of pilum

pila (plural pilae)

1. (art, archaeology) A mortar.

• ALIP, Pali, lipa, pail, pali, pali-, pial

From Latin pīla.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/

pila f (plural piles)

1. pile, heap
2. bunch, load
3. battery
4. (heraldry) pile

pila

1. how many?
2. how much?

pila

1. how much?

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪla]

From Proto-Slavic *pila.

pila f

1. saw

• piliny f pl

pila

1. past tense of the feminine form of pít

• pila in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pila in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Proto-Germanic *spilą (“game, dance”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpilɑ/, [ˈpilɑ]
• Hyphenation: pi‧la
• Rhymes: -ilɑ

pila

1. joke, jest
2. practical joke, jest

• (joke): vitsi
• (practical joke): kepponen, kuje

• pilailla

• Alpi, alpi, lipa

• IPA^(key): /pi.la/

pila

1. third-person singular past historic of piler

• plia

pila

1. joke

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/

From Latin pīla (“pillar”).

pila f (plural pile)

1. pile (all senses)
2. (heraldry) pile (one of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess)
3. battery (electrical)
4. torch / flashlight

• pila atomica
• pila di grafite
• reattore nucleare
• reattore atomico

From Latin pīla (“mortar”).

pila f (plural pile)

1. basin

• alpi, Alpi, pali

• פילה‎ (Hebrew orthography spelling)

From Latin pīla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.læ/, /ˈpi.lɛ/, /ˈpi.le/, /ˈpi.lə/ (dialects with narrowing of final "a"s)

pila m (plural pilas)

1. sink, washbasin

   Lávate las manos en la pila.

   Wash your hands in the sink.

2. pile, heap

   Avía una pila de livros en la mesa.

   There was a pile of books on the table.

From Proto-Italic *pistlā, from Proto-Indo-European *pis-tlo-, from *peys- (“to crush”). See pīlum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.la/, [ˈpiː.ɫa]

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pīla f (genitive pīlae); first declension

1. mortar (used with a pestle)

First declension.

• mortārium (implement for grinding):

Unknown, but cognate or related to Oscan denominal verb ehpeílatasset (“to erect”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.la/, [ˈpiː.ɫa]

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pīla f (genitive pīlae); first declension

1. pillar
2. pier

First declension.

• pilārium
• pīlātim
• pīlō

• Catalan: pila
• English: pile
• French: pile
• Galician: pía
• Italian: pila
• Portuguese: pilha
• Spanish: pila

Unknown. Possibly from pilus (“hair”), thus originally meaning "bundle of hair".

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/, [ˈpɪ.ɫa]

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pila f (genitive pilae); first declension

1. ball
2. (figuratively) a game of ball
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 13:

     Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere vitam.

     It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.

3. globe, sphere

First declension.

• pilāris
• pilārius

• pila in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pila in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pila in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pila in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to throw down the javelins (pila) and fight with the sword: omissis pilis gladiis rem gerere
    
• pila in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pila in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 465

• pilen

pila m or f

1. definite feminine singular of pil

• pilen

pila f or m

1. definite feminine singular of pil

pila f (plural pilas)

1. (slang, Portugal) penis
2. (slang, South Brazil) cash

From Proto-Slavic *pila, from Old High German fil (“file”).

• IPA^(key): /pǐːla/
• Hyphenation: pi‧la

píla f (Cyrillic spelling пи́ла)

1. (regional, Croatia) saw

From pilu, from Latin pilus

• IPA^(key): /ˈpila/
• Hyphenation: pi‧la

pila f

1. (anatomy) body hair

• IPA^(key): /ˈpìːla/
• Tonal orthography: píla

píla f (genitive píle, nominative plural píle)

1. file (abrasive tool)

From Latin pīla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpila/

pila f (plural pilas)

1. small battery
2. pile, mound
3. (colloquial) a lot
4. (heraldry) pile
5. sink; washbasin
6. font

• ponerse las pilas

• batería

pila

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pilar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pilar.

pila (present pilar, preterite pilade, supine pilat, imperative pila)

1. (dated) to dart; to run quickly, to shoot rapidly and energetically along

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/

pila

1. clay for making earthenware

From Spanish fila (“line”), from French file (“line”).

pila

1. line; file
2. queue; line of persons, vehicles, etc.

From Spanish pila (“small battery”), from Latin pīla (“mortar”).

pila

1. small electric battery

• IPA^(key): /pi.ˈla/

pila

1. broken off (as the handle of a jug, neck of a bottle, etc.)
2. chipped off (as the edge rim of crockery, etc.)

• ilap, lapi, lipa, pali