pilleus

• pīleus

From the same Proto-Indo-European source as Old Church Slavonic плусти (plusti), Old High German filz, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “felt”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpil.le.us/, [ˈpɪl.le.ʊs]

pilleus m (genitive pilleī); second declension

1. a felt cap worn at the Saturnalia, and given to freed slaves
2. (hence) liberty, freedom

Second declension.

• pilleus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pilleus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pilleus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pilleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pilleus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pilleus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin