Etymology

pila

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Today it means: A mortar. Full definition →

Latin pīla
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  1. Latin · borrowed frompīla“mortar”
  2. English todaypila

From Latin pīla (“mortar”).

Words from the same roots

Latinpīla all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.