pilleus

Latin

Alternative forms

• pīleus

Etymology

From the same Proto-Indo-European source as Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Old High German filz, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “felt”), Albanian plis (“felt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpil.le.us/, [ˈpɪlːʲeʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpil.le.us/, [ˈpilːeus]

Noun

pilleus m (genitive pilleī); second declension

1. a felt cap worn at the Saturnalia, and given to freed slaves
2. (figuratively) liberty, freedom

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pilleus	pilleī
genitive	pilleī	pilleōrum
dative	pilleō	pilleīs
accusative	pilleum	pilleōs
ablative	pilleō	pilleīs
vocative	pillee	pilleī

Descendants

• Catalan: pella
• French: peille
• Occitan: pelha

References

• “pilleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pilleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pilleus 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)
• pilleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pilleus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pilleus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin