different between pillier vs millier

English

Adjective

pillier

1. comparative form of pilly: more pilly

Old French

Alternative forms

• piller

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pili?re, from Late Latin pil?re (“to remove hair”), present active infinitive of pil?, from Latin pilus, or alternatively from a derivative of Latin pilleus. Compare Old Occitan pilhar, Italian pigliare.

Verb

pillier

1. to plunder; to pillage

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. The forms that would normally end in *-ill, *-ills, *-illt are modified to il, iz, it. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• pillaige

Descendants

• Middle French: piller
  • French: piller

English

Etymology

From French mille (“thousand”).

Noun

millier (plural milliers)

1. A weight of the metric system, equal to one million grams; a metric ton.

French

Etymology

From mille (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.lje/

Noun

millier m (plural milliers)

1. thousand; a number of about a thousand.

   Il y avait un millier de personnes dans la foule. -- There were about a thousand people in the crowd.

Further reading

• “millier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

millier m (oblique plural milliers, nominative singular milliers, nominative plural millier)

1. thousand; a number of about thousand.