pilule

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English

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Noun

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pilule (plural pilules)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A little pill.

Estonian

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Noun

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pilule

  1. allative singular of pilu

French

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /pi.lyl/
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Noun

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pilule f (plural pilules)

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Romanian: pilulă
  • Russian: пилюля (piljulja)

References

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  1. ^ Etymology and history of pilule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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