πῖλος
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- wool or hair wrought into felt
- anything made of felt, especially a felt skullcap
- a cottony ball formed on some trees
- translation for Latin pilus (pilus), as in primus pilus (primus pilus)
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *pilos.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pilos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antifelt English
- deepfelt English
- epilate English
- felt English
- feltest English
- feltlike English
- feltmaker English
- feltness English
- feltwork English
- feltwort English
- felty English
- floccinaucinihilipilification English
- heartfelt English
- homefelt English
- infelt English
- needlefelt English
- pilar English
- pileus English
- piliferous English
- piligerous English
- pilo- English
- pilocyte English
- pilus English
- refelt English
- underfelt English
- unfelt English
- pilaris Latin
- pilleus Latin
- pilosus Latin
- pilus Latin
- pilāre Latin
- pelo Italian
- peluche French
- épiler French
- pelo Spanish, Castilian
- πίλινος Ancient Greek
- *pil- Proto-Indo-European
- *pilos Proto-Indo-European
- フェルト Japanese
- felt Old English
- feltwurma Old English
- feltwyrt Old English
- felt Middle English
- peil Old French
- pèl Catalan, Valencian
- pelo Galician
- păr Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πίλος Greek (modern)
- *felt gmw-pro
- pelejar Old Portuguese
- per Aromanian
- pelu Asturian
- pêl Friulian
- pila Sicilian
- péło Venetian
- pail Dalmatian
- poil Bourguignon
- pilu Sardinian
- pelo Neapolitan