The story
- Latin · learned borrowing frompilus
- Latin · learned borrowing frompilus
- English todaypilus
Learned borrowing from Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pile.
Words from the same roots
Latinpilus all →
pilepilonidalepilatepileouspiliferouspiliformpiligerouspili tortipilo-pilocyte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.