pillar

The story

1. Latin · derived frompila“a pillar, pier, mole”
2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*pilāre“a pillar”
3. Old French · derived frompilier
4. Middle English · inherited frompiler
5. English todaypillar

From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”). Displaced native Old English sweor (“pillar, column”) and Old English stapol.

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