πῖλος

From Proto-Indo-European *pilos. Cognates include Latin pilus (“a hair”), pila (“a ball”), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), and Old English felt (English felt).

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

1. wool or hair wrought into felt
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.265
2. 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
3. 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
4. translation for Latin pilus, as in primus pilus

• (antonym(s) of “felt skullcap”): πέτασος (pétasos)

• Greek: πίλος (pílos)

• “πῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πῖλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πῖλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πῖλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • felt idem, page 315.