pille

See also: Pille and pillé

Afrikaans

Noun

pille

1. plural of pil

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰelə]

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

Declension of pille

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pille	pillen	piller	pillerne
genitive	pilles	pillens	pillers	pillernes

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

Declension of pille

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pille	pillen	piller	pillerne
genitive	pilles	pillens	pillers	pillernes

Etymology 3

Verb

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

1. peel

References

• “pille” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “pille,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “pille,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Noun

pille

1. partitive plural of pill

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pij/
• Homophones: pillent, pilles

Verb

pille

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpilːɛ]
• Hyphenation: pil‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

Noun

pille (plural pillék)

1. (archaic, poetic) (especially a smaller type of) butterfly [First attested around 1525.]

   Synonyms: pillangó, lepke

2. (rare) snowflake [First attested in 1822.]

   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

Further reading

• (butterfly; snowflake): pille in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ([dialectal] milk skin): pille in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ([regional] bread crust): pille in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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

• "pille" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Norwegian Bokmål

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

• abortpille
• sovepille

References

• “pille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pilula.

Noun

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

1. a pill (tablet)

Derived terms

• sovepille

References

• “pille” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

pille

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• pill (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪˌlɛ/

Noun

pille c

1. (slang) penis, willy (of a young boy)

   Synonyms: pillesnopp, pillenupp

Declension

Declension of pille

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pille	pilles
	definite	pillen	pillens
plural	indefinite	pillar	pillars
	definite	pillarna	pillarnas

Descendants

• → Finnish: pili

See also

• kuk

Further reading

• Fula Ordboken

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.