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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pilum

Noun

pilum (plural pila or pilums)

1. (historical) A Roman military javelin.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2000, p. 21:

     Besides a lighter spear, the Roman legionary grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin whose utmost length was about six feet and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of about eighteen inches.

   • 2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz 2011, p. 371:

     Verica plucked a pilum from the hands of the nearest legionary – the soldier didn't react – and handed it to me.

2. (botany) The columella on the surface of a pollen grain

Translations

References

• pilum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *pistlom, from Proto-Indo-European *pis-tlo-, from *peys- (“to crush”). See pistillum and p?la.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi?.lum/, [?pi??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.lum/, [?pi?lum]

Noun

p?lum n (genitive p?l?); second declension

1. a pounder, pestle
2. a javelin, throwing spear

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

• p?ns?

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

pilum

1. accusative singular of pilus (“hair”)

References

• pilum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pilum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pilum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• pilum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pilum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Latin pileum.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li?m

Noun

pileum (plural pilea)

1. (zoology) The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape.

Related terms

• pileus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi?.le.um/, [?pi???e???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.le.um/, [?pi?l?um]

Noun

p?leum m

1. accusative singular of p?leus