pilule
English
Noun
pilule (plural pilules)
- (medicine, obsolete) A little pill.
Estonian
Noun
pilule
- allative singular of pilu
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin pilula, apparently first attested in the fourteenth century[1], in turn inherited from the Classical Latin, attested in the medical sense in Pliny. Note that Italian pillola[2][3] and Spanish píldora[4] are widely regarded as inheritances, not borrowings.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.lyl/
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Noun
pilule f (plural pilules)
- pill (small object to be swallowed)
- (with the definite article la) the contraceptive pill
Derived terms
- dorer la pilule
- pilule du lendemain
- se dorer la pilule
Descendants
- → Romanian: pilulă
- → Russian: пилюля (piljulja)
References
- Etymology and history of “pilule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- pillola in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- pillola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “píldora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “pilule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.