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Latin
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
Noun
pilleus m (genitive pilleī); second declension
- a felt cap worn at the Saturnalia, and given to freed slaves
- (figuratively) liberty, freedom
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
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