piller

Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller (“to plunder”) (more at pillage)

• pyllour [15th c.]

piller (plural pillers)

1. (obsolete) A plunderer or thief.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xlviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     Thenne he horsed his bretheren ageyne and sayd bretheren ye oughte to be ashamed to falle so of your horses / What is a Knyght but whan he is on horsbak / I sett not by a knyght whanne he is on foote / for all batails on fote ar but pelowres batails / For there shold no Knyghte syghte on foote / but yf hit were for treason / or els he were dryuen therto by force

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piller (plural pillers)

1. Pronunciation spelling of pillow.
   • 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:

     "What are you layin' on your good bed in the daytime for, messin' up the feathers, and dirtyin' the pillers with your dusty boots?"

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰelɐ]

piller c

1. indefinite plural of pille

piller

1. present of pille

Inherited from Middle French piller, from Old French pillier, derived from Latin pilleus.

• IPA^(key): /pi.je/

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piller

1. to plunder; to pillage
   • 2023, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, L'iris blanc [Asterix and the White Iris] (Asterix), Vanves: Hachette, →ISBN, page 33:

     Un pirate c'est négatif, hargneux et sanguinaire ! Ça pille et ça mange avec les doigts sans se laver les mains !

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• pillage

• → Spanish: pillar

• “piller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• “piller” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “piller” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

From Old French pillier, piller.

piller

1. to plunder; to pillage

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• pillaige

• French: piller

piller m or f

1. indefinite plural of pille

piller f

1. indefinite plural of pille

piller

1. alternative form of pillier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. 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.

• pillaige

From Latin pilula.

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piller n

1. a pill (a small portion of a drug or drugs to be taken orally)

• abortpiller (“abortion pill”)
• p-piller (“birth control pill, the pill”)
• sömnpiller (“sleeping pill”)

• piller in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• piller in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• piller in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)