pille

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See also: Pille and pillé

Afrikaans

Noun

pille

  1. plural of pil

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German pilere, pilar, from Medieval Latin pilare, pilarium, from Latin pīla (pillar).

Noun

pille c (singular definite pillen, plural indefinite piller)

  1. pillar
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, pillula, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (ball).

Noun

pille c (singular definite pillen, plural indefinite piller)

  1. pill
Inflection

Etymology 3

Verb

pille (imperative pil, infinitive at pille, present tense piller, past tense pillede, perfect tense har pillet)

  1. peel

References

Estonian

Noun

pille

  1. partitive plural of pill

French

Pronunciation

Verb

pille

  1. inflection of piller:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

pille (plural pillék)

  1. (archaic, poetic) (especially a smaller type of) butterfly [1]
    Synonyms: pillangó, lepke
  2. (rare) snowflake [1]
    Synonyms: hópehely, hópihe
  3. (slang, swimming) butterfly stroke
    Synonym: pillangóúszás

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pille pillék
accusative pillét pilléket
dative pillének pilléknek
instrumental pillével pillékkel
causal-final pilléért pillékért
translative pillévé pillékké
terminative pilléig pillékig
essive-formal pilleként pillékként
essive-modal
inessive pillében pillékben
superessive pillén pilléken
adessive pillénél pilléknél
illative pillébe pillékbe
sublative pillére pillékre
allative pilléhez pillékhez
elative pilléből pillékből
delative pilléről pillékről
ablative pillétől pilléktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
pilléé pilléké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
pillééi pillékéi
Possessive forms of pille
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pillém pilléim
2nd person sing. pilléd pilléid
3rd person sing. pilléje pilléi
1st person plural pillénk pilléink
2nd person plural pillétek pilléitek
3rd person plural pilléjük pilléik

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 pille in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • (butterfly; snowflake): pille in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • ( milk skin): pille in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • ( bread crust): pille in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Latin pilula, pillula.

Noun

pille f

  1. pill (ball of medicine)

Descendants

  • Danish: pille
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pille

References

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Middle Low German pille (pill), from Latin pilula (small ball, pellet; pill), diminutive of pila (ball; globe, sphere) (with the suffix -ula, from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (instrumental suffix)), likely from pilus (hair), from Proto-Indo-European *pil- (one string of hair).

Noun

pille f or m (definite singular pilla or pillen, indefinite plural piller, definite plural pillene)

  1. a pill (tablet)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pilula.

Noun

pille f (definite singular pilla, indefinite plural piller, definite plural pillene)

  1. a pill (tablet)

Derived terms

References

Spanish

Verb

pille

  1. inflection of pillar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

pille c

  1. (slang) penis, willy (of a young boy)
    Synonyms: pillesnopp, pillenupp

Declension

Declension of pille 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pille pillen pillar pillarna
Genitive pilles pillens pillars pillarnas

Descendants

See also

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

From the contraction of pil + ile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpil.lɛ/, /ˈpil.le/
  • Hyphenation: pil‧le

Noun

pille (definite accusative piliyle, plural pillerle)

  1. with the battery, using the battery
    Pille çalışıyor galiba.
    I think it runs on batteries.