Hawaiian

Proper noun

Pila

1. A male given name and a nickname for persons officially named William.

Related terms

• Uilama
• Wilama
• Wiliama

References

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 181
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Pila occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 1 woman and 19 men.

English

Noun

pila

1. plural of pilum

Catalan

Noun

pila f ‎(plural piles)

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

Cebuano

Quantifier

pila

1. how many?
2. how much?

Adverb

pila

1. how much?

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pila.

Noun

pila f

1. saw

Declension

Related terms

• piliny f pl

Verb

pila

1. past tense of the feminine form of pít

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pila

1. joke, jest
2. practical joke, jest

Declension

Synonyms

• (joke): vitsi
• (practical joke): kepponen, kuje

Derived terms

• mennä pilalle
• pilaantua
• pilailla

Anagrams

• Alpi, alpi

French

Verb

pila

1. third-person singular past historic of piler

Anagrams

• plia

Italian

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

Ladino

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.

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.la/

Noun

pīla f ‎(genitive pīlae); first declension

1. mortar (used with a pestle)

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• (implement for grinding) mortārium

Descendants

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).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.la/

Noun

pīla f ‎(genitive pīlae); first declension

1. pillar
2. pier

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• pilārium
• pīlātim
• pīlō

Descendants

• Catalan: pila
• English: pile
• French: pile
• Italian: pila
• Spanish: pila

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.la/

Noun

pila f ‎(genitive pilae); first declension

1. ball
2. (figuratively) a game of ball
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 13

     Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.

     It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.

3. globe, sphere

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• pilāris
• pilārius

Descendants

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pila”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pilen

Noun

pila m, f

1. definite feminine singular of pil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• pilen

Noun

pila f, m

1. definite feminine singular of pil

Portuguese

Noun

pila f (plural pilas)

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

Serbo-Croatian

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

Declension

Sicilian

Etymology

From pilu, from Latin pilus

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pila f

1. (anatomy) body hair

Slovene

Pila

Pronunciation

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

Noun

píla f ‎(genitive píle, nominative plural píle)

1. file (abrasive tool)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pīla.

Noun

pila f ‎(plural pilas)

1. small battery
2. pile, mound
3. (heraldry) pile

See also

• batería

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.

Swedish

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Tagalog

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.)