pilule

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English

Noun

pilule (plural pilules)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A little pill.

Estonian

Noun

pilule

  1. allative singular of pilu

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pilula, apparently first attested in the fourteenth century,[1] in turn inherited from the Classical Latin, attested in the medical sense in Pliny. Note that Italian pillola[2][3] and Spanish píldora[4] are widely regarded as inheritances, not borrowings.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.lyl/
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Noun

pilule f (plural pilules)

  1. pill (small object to be swallowed)
  2. (with the definite article la) the contraceptive pill

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Romanian: pilulă
  • → Russian: пилюля (piljulja)

References

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “pilule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
  2. ^ pillola in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  3. ^ pillola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  4. ^ “píldora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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