πῖλος

See also: πηλός and πίλος

Ancient Greek

From the same Proto-Indo-European source as Proto-Slavic *pьlstь (“felt”), Old English felt (English felt) and probably Latin pilleus. A connection with Latin pilus (“a hair”) and pila (“a ball”) has been abandoned.

πῖλος • (pîlos) m (genitive πῑ́λου); second declension

wool or hair wrought into felt
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.265
anything made of felt, especially a felt skullcap
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 544
1. a felt shoe
  - 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Soft Ones 5
2. felt cloth
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.23, 73, 75
a cottony ball formed on some trees
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Plants 3.7,4
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Plants 4.8,7
1. a ball, globe
translation for Latin pilus, as in primus pilus

Second declension of ὁ πῖλος; τοῦ πῑ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῖλος ho pîlos	τὼ πῑ́λω tṑ pī́lō	οἱ πῖλοι hoi pîloi
Genitive	τοῦ πῑ́λου toû pī́lou	τοῖν πῑ́λοιν toîn pī́loin	τῶν πῑ́λων tôn pī́lōn
Dative	τῷ πῑ́λῳ tōî pī́lōi	τοῖν πῑ́λοιν toîn pī́loin	τοῖς πῑ́λοις toîs pī́lois
Accusative	τὸν πῖλον tòn pîlon	τὼ πῑ́λω tṑ pī́lō	τοὺς πῑ́λους toùs pī́lous
Vocative	πῖλε pîle	πῑ́λω pī́lō	πῖλοι pîloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.