Etymology

piloti

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Today it means: One of the columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water. Full definition →

French pilotis ← Middle French pilot
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The story

  1. Middle French · derived frompilot“stake”
  2. French · borrowed frompilotis
  3. English todaypiloti

From French pilotis, from Middle French pilot (“stake”). Attested from the 17th century.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchpilot all →

pilot

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.