Ancient Greek

Noun

πῖλος • ‎(pîlos) m ‎(genitive πίλου); second declension

1. wool or hair wrought into felt
   • Homer, Iliad 10.265
2. anything made of felt, especially a felt skullcap
   • Hesiod, Works and Days 544
   1. a felt shoe
      • Cratinus, Soft Ones 5
   2. felt cloth
      • Herodotus, Histories 4.23, 73, 75
3. a cottony ball formed on some trees
   • Theophrastus, On Plants 3.7,4
   • Theophrastus, On Plants 4.8,7
   1. a ball, globe
4. translation for Latin pilus, as in primus pilus

Inflection

Antonyms

• (felt skullcap): πέτασος ‎(pétasos)

References

• πῖλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πῖλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πῖλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πῖλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πῖλος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • felt idem, page 315.
• LSJ 8th edition