pilula
See also: pílula
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Diminutive from pila (“ball, globe”) + -ula, said to be ultimately related to pilus (“hair”), since the balls used in Ancient Roman games were filled with hair.[1][2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pilula f (genitive pilulae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pilula | pilulae |
Genitive | pilulae | pilulārum |
Dative | pilulae | pilulīs |
Accusative | pilulam | pilulās |
Ablative | pilulā | pilulīs |
Vocative | pilula | pilulae |
SynonymsEdit
- (small ball, globule): globulus
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “pilula”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- pilula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pilula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- ^ “pill”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “pill”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.