pila

Noun

pila

1. plural of pilum

Anagrams

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

Noun

pila f (plural piles)

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

Determiner

pila

1. how many?
2. how much?

Adverb

pila

1. how much?

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pila.

Noun

pila f

1. saw

Verb

pila

1. past tense of the feminine form of pít

Further reading

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

Etymology

From a Germanic language, compare Proto-Germanic *spilą (“game, dance”) and Swedish spel (“game”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pila

1. joke, jest
2. practical joke, jest

Anagrams

• Alpi, alpi

Verb

pila

1. third-person singular past historic of piler

Anagrams

• plia

Noun

pila

1. joke

Etymology 1

From Latin pīla (“pillar”).

Noun

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

Etymology 2

From Latin pīla (“mortar”).

Noun

pila f (plural pile)

1. basin

Anagrams

• alpi, Alpi, pali

Alternative forms

• פילה‎ (Hebrew orthography spelling)

Etymology

From Latin pīla.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Unknown, but cognate or related to Oscan denominal verb ehpeílatasset (“to erect”). Or from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂g- (which would make it cognate with paciscor, pāgina, pāgus, pālus, pāngō, pāx, pignus).

Etymology 3

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

References

• 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

Alternative forms

• pilen

Noun

pila m, f

1. definite feminine singular of pil

Alternative forms

• pilen

Noun

pila f, m

1. definite feminine singular of pil

Noun

pila f (plural pilas)

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

píla f (Cyrillic spelling пи́ла)

1. saw

Etymology

From pilu, from Latin pilus

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pila f

1. (anatomy) body hair

Pronunciation

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

Noun

píla f (genitive píle, nominative plural píle)

1. file (abrasive tool)

Etymology

From Latin pīla.

Noun

pila f (plural pilas)

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

Verb

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.

Verb

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

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

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/

Noun

pila

1. clay for making earthenware

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pila

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pila

1. small electric battery

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /pi.ˈla/

Adjective

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.)

Anagrams

• ilap, lapi, lipa, pali