piller
English
Etymology 1
Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller (“to plunder”) (more at pillage)
Alternative forms
- pyllour [15th c.]
Noun
piller (plural pillers)
- (obsolete) A plunderer or thief.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xlviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- Thenne he horsed his bretheren ageyne and sayd bretheren ye oughte to be ashamed to falle so of your horses / What is a Knyght but whan he is on horsbak / I sett not by a knyght whanne he is on foote / for all batails on fote ar but pelowres batails / For there shold no Knyghte syghte on foote / but yf hit were for treason / or els he were dryuen therto by force
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
piller (plural pillers)
- Pronunciation spelling of pillow.
- 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
- "What are you layin' on your good bed in the daytime for, messin' up the feathers, and dirtyin' the pillers with your dusty boots?"
See also
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʰelɐ]
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French piller, from Old French pillier, derived from Latin pilleus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.je/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of piller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | piller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pillant /pi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pillé /pi.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pille /pij/ |
pilles /pij/ |
pille /pij/ |
pillons /pi.jɔ̃/ |
pillez /pi.je/ |
pillent /pij/ |
| imperfect | pillais /pi.jɛ/ |
pillais /pi.jɛ/ |
pillait /pi.jɛ/ |
pillions /pij.jɔ̃/ |
pilliez /pij.je/ |
pillaient /pi.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pillai /pi.je/ |
pillas /pi.ja/ |
pilla /pi.ja/ |
pillâmes /pi.jam/ |
pillâtes /pi.jat/ |
pillèrent /pi.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | pillerai /pij.ʁe/ |
pilleras /pij.ʁa/ |
pillera /pij.ʁa/ |
pillerons /pij.ʁɔ̃/ |
pillerez /pij.ʁe/ |
pilleront /pij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pillerais /pij.ʁɛ/ |
pillerais /pij.ʁɛ/ |
pillerait /pij.ʁɛ/ |
pillerions /pi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pilleriez /pi.jə.ʁje/ |
pilleraient /pij.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 | pille /pij/ |
pilles /pij/ |
pille /pij/ |
pillions /pij.jɔ̃/ |
pilliez /pij.je/ |
pillent /pij/ |
| imperfect2 | pillasse /pi.jas/ |
pillasses /pi.jas/ |
pillât /pi.ja/ |
pillassions /pi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
pillassiez /pi.ja.sje/ |
pillassent /pi.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pille /pij/ |
— | pillons /pi.jɔ̃/ |
pillez /pi.je/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- → Spanish: pillar
References
- “piller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French pillier, piller.
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of piller
| infinitive | simple | piller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | pillant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pillé | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pille | pilles | pille | pillons | pillez | pillent |
| imperfect | pillois, pilloys | pillois, pilloys | pilloit, pilloyt | pillions, pillyons | pilliez, pillyez | pilloient, pilloyent | |
| past historic | pilla | pillas | pilla | pillasmes | pillastes | pillerent | |
| future | pillerai, pilleray | pilleras | pillera | pillerons | pillerez | pilleront | |
| conditional | pillerois, pilleroys | pillerois, pilleroys | pilleroit, pilleroyt | pillerions, pilleryons | pilleriez, pilleryez | pilleroient, pilleroyent | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pille | pilles | pille | pillons | pillez | pillent |
| imperfect | pillasse | pillasses | pillast | pillassions | pillassiez | pillassent | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pille | — | pillons | pillez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- French: piller
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old French
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ill, *-ills, *-illt are modified to il, iz, it. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | piller | avoir pillé | |||||
| gerund | en pillant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | pillant | ||||||
| past participle | pillé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | pil | pilles | pille | pillons | pillez | pillent |
| imperfect | pilloie, pilleie, pilloe, pilleve | pilloies, pilleies, pilloes, pilleves | pilloit, pilleit, pillot, pilleve | pilliiens, pilliens | pilliiez, pilliez | pilloient, pilleient, pilloent, pillevent | |
| preterite | pillai | pillas | pilla | pillames | pillastes | pillerent | |
| future | pillerai | pilleras | pillera | pillerons | pilleroiz, pillereiz, pillerez | pilleront | |
| conditional | pilleroie, pillereie | pilleroies, pillereies | pilleroit, pillereit | pilleriiens, pilleriens | pilleriiez, pilleriez | pilleroient, pillereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | pil | piz | pit | pillons | pillez | pillent |
| imperfect | pillasse | pillasses | pillast | pillissons, pillissiens | pillissoiz, pillissez, pillissiez | pillassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | pille | — | pillons | pillez | — | ||
Related terms
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Pronunciation
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Declension
| Declension of piller | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | piller | pillret | piller | pillren |
| Genitive | pillers | pillrets | pillers | pillrens |
Derived terms
- abortpiller (“abortion pill”)
- p-piller (“birth control pill, the pill”)
- sömnpiller (“sleeping pill”)
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