pile
French
noun
Definitions
- heap, stack
- pillar
- battery
- tails
- (heraldiccharge) pile
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pīla (pillar, mortar, pier, a pillar, mole) borrowed from Italian pila.
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
pila
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *pilare Latin
- *pilla Latin
- *pīlāre Latin
- pilare Latin
- pīla Latin
- pīlāre Latin
- appilamento Italian
- pila Italian
- termopila Italian
- empiler French
- photopile French
- apilar Spanish, Castilian
- meapilas Spanish, Castilian
- pila Spanish, Castilian
- piłka Polish
- pica Catalan, Valencian
- pila Catalan, Valencian
- pílári Icelandic
- pil Turkish
- pin Vietnamese
- đèn pin Vietnamese
- pile Middle French
- pia Old Portuguese
- ពិល Central Khmer
- pile Friulian
- espilori Old Occitan
- paila Dalmatian
- pila Ladino
- pila Malagasy
- pil Rade