piler

English

Etymology

pile +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

piler (plural pilers)

1. One who piles something
   • 2007 May 10, Penelope Green, “Order and Chaos in a Single Heartbeat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Houses and photography sets seem to work better, he said, if “I exert a system of precision.” Ms. Ford, 33, said she is by nature a piler and stacker but has learned to follow what she described good-naturedly as “the Charlie Code.”

Anagrams

• peril, plier, prile

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to ram down”), from pīla (“column”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.le/

• Audio:

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Verb

piler

1. (transitive, cooking) to crush
2. (intransitive) to slam on the brakes of a vehicle, making it come to a sudden stop

Conjugation

Conjugation of piler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	piler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pilant /pi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pilé /pi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pile /pil/	piles /pil/	pile /pil/	pilons /pi.lɔ̃/	pilez /pi.le/	pilent /pil/
	imperfect	pilais /pi.lɛ/	pilais /pi.lɛ/	pilait /pi.lɛ/	pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/	piliez /pi.lje/	pilaient /pi.lɛ/
	past historic2	pilai /pi.le/	pilas /pi.la/	pila /pi.la/	pilâmes /pi.lam/	pilâtes /pi.lat/	pilèrent /pi.lɛʁ/
	future	pilerai /pil.ʁe/	pileras /pil.ʁa/	pilera /pil.ʁa/	pilerons /pil.ʁɔ̃/	pilerez /pil.ʁe/	pileront /pil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/	pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/	pilerait /pil.ʁɛ/	pilerions /pi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	pileriez /pi.lə.ʁje/	pileraient /pil.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	pile /pil/	piles /pil/	pile /pil/	pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/	piliez /pi.lje/	pilent /pil/
	imperfect2	pilasse /pi.las/	pilasses /pi.las/	pilât /pi.la/	pilassions /pi.la.sjɔ̃/	pilassiez /pi.la.sje/	pilassent /pi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pile /pil/	—	pilons /pi.lɔ̃/	pilez /pi.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• patates pilées

Related terms

• pilon (“pestle”)

Further reading

• “piler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• péril, plier, repli

Latin

Verb

piler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pilō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

piler m or f

1. indefinite plural of pil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• pilar

Noun

piler f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of pil

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pilāre, from Latin pila.

Noun

piler oblique singular, m (oblique plural pilers, nominative singular pilers, nominative plural piler)

1. pillar

Descendants

• French: pilier
• Norman: pilyi
• → Middle English:
  • English: pillar