billiards
English
/ˈbɪlɪədz/, /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/
noun
Definitions
- (games) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
- (games) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
Etymology
Borrowed from French billard (pool table, billiards) derived from Old French bille (log, tree trunk, stick, small ball) derived from Latin *bilia.
Origin
Latin
*bilia
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- billet English
- billiard English
- *bilia Latin
- Billard German
- biliardo Italian
- biljart Dutch, Flemish
- billard French
- bille French
- billar Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰleh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₃-, *bʰolyo- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰolyo- Proto-Indo-European
- biljard Norwegian Bokmål
- bilhar Portuguese
- bilard Polish
- biljard Norwegian Nynorsk
- bile Irish
- billard Danish
- billard Old French
- bille Old French
- billette Old French
- billar Catalan, Valencian
- billa Galician
- birlo Galician
- bile Old Irish
- billey Manx
- bille Middle French
- *belyom Proto-Celtic
- *belyos Proto-Celtic
- *bikkil Frankish
- piliet Marshallese
- ບີຢາ Lao
- bilyard Crimean Tatar