The story
- Latin · derived frompilō“to remove (hair)”
- Late Latin · derived frompiliō
- Old French · derived frompillage
- English todaypillage
From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“to remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpilō all →
pill
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.