# pilo
## Basque
### Noun

pilo inan
* (chiefly Biscayan) Alternative form of pila (“bunch, lot”)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pilo”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “pilo”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɪlo]

### Participle

pilo
* neuter singular past active participle of pít

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pilus, French poil, Italian pelo, Spanish pelo. Also found in English words like depilate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.lo/

### Noun

pilo (plural pili)
* (of animals, also botany) hair, bristle
* (of persons) hair (of all parts of body except top of head)
* (of sheep, camels, etc.) wool
* (of cloth, of hats) nap

#### Derived terms

* pilala (“relating to hair”)
* pilaro (“(of one object) coat”)
* pilobulbo (“hair bulb, hair root”)
* piloza (“hairy, shaggy, pilose”)
* rezapila (“short-haired”)
* senpiligar (“to depilate”)
* senpiligivo (“depilatory (substance)”)

### See also

* haro

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From pilus (“hair”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Third sense unexplained.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpi.loː/, [ˈpɪɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpi.lo/, [ˈpiːlo]

#### Verb

pilō (present infinitive pilāre, perfect active pilāvī, supine pilātum); first conjugation
* (intransitive) to put forth hairs, grow hairy
* (transitive) to deprive of hair, make bald, depilate
* (transitive, figuratively) to plunder, pillage

##### Derived terms

* dēpilō
* pilātrīx
* pilātus
* piliō

##### Related terms

* pilōsus
* pilus

##### Descendants

* Catalan: pelar
* French: peler
* Friulian: pelâ
* Italian: pelare
* Occitan: pelar
* Portuguese: pelar
* Sicilian: pilari
* Spanish: pelar
* Venetan: pełar
* Vulgar Latin: *pilucāre (see there for further descendants)

### Etymology 2

From pīla (“pillar, column”) +‎ -ō.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpiː.loː/, [ˈpiːɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpi.lo/, [ˈpiːlo]

#### Verb

pīlō (present infinitive pīlāre, supine pīlātum); first conjugation, no perfect stem
* to ram down, fix firmly
* (Late Latin) to rob (attested from ca. 400 CE; cf. the similar sense of compīlō)

##### Derived terms

* compīlō
* expīlō
* oppīlō
* pīlātus

##### Descendants

* French: piler
* Italian: pilare
* Italian: pigliare (< *piliāre)
* Occitan: pilar
* Portuguese: pilar
* Portuguese: pilhar (< *piliāre)
* Romanian: împila
* Sicilian: pigghiari (< *piliāre)
* Spanish: pilar
* Spanish: pillar (< *piliāre)

### Etymology 3

See the Medieval Latin pillō (“chaff”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpiː.loː/, [ˈpiːɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpi.lo/, [ˈpiːlo]

#### Noun

pīlō f (genitive pīlōnis); third declension
* Alternative form of pillō

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### References

* “pilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* pilo 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)
* pilo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

### References

* “pilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pīliāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 494

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pilus.

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈpiːlə]
* (Castelmezzano) IPA: [ˈpiːlə]

### Noun

pilo m (plural pile)
* hair (of the body)

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 92: “il pelo; i peli” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “pilo”, in Schedario Napoletano

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pīlum (“pilum”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.lu/

#### Noun

pilo m (plural pilos)
* pilum (Roman javelin)

##### Related terms

* lança, dardo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pilo
* first-person singular present indicative of pilar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpilo/ [ˈpi.lo]
* Rhymes: -ilo
* Syllabification: pi‧lo

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from pilar.

#### Noun

pilo m (plural pilos)
* pilum (weapon)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pilo
* first-person singular present indicative of pilar

### Further reading

* “pilo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pillow.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

pilo class IX (plural pilo class X)
* (rare) pillow
    Synonym: mto
** 2021 December 12, “Simulizi ya baba aliyesafiri ndani ya sanduku kutoka London mpaka Australia”, in BBC Swahili‎:Ndani ya sanduku ni spears, akiandamana na chakula cha makopo , tochi , blanketi na pilo na pia chupa mbili za plastiki moja ya maji ya kunywa na nyingine ya kujisaidia haja ndogo, sanduku liliingizwa ndege ya shirika la ndege la India kwenda Perth magharibi mwa Australia.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpi.lo]

### Verb

pilo
* (stative) to be blind

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English pillow.

### Noun

pilo
* pillow
* chock
* supporter

### Verb

pilo
* to sleep around; to be promiscuous

## Waray-Waray
### Noun

pilô
* fold; pleat