Etymology

piles

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Today it means: A large amount of. Full definition →

Latin pila
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompila“ball”
  2. English todaypiles

From Latin pila (“ball”).

Words from the same roots

Latinpila all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.