pilleus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === pīleus === Etymology === From the same Proto-Indo-European source as Proto-Slavic *pьlstь (“felt”), Old High German filz, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “felt”), Albanian plis (“felt”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɪl.le.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpil.le.us] === Noun === pilleus m (genitive pilleī); second declension a felt cap worn at the Saturnalia, and given to freed slaves (figuratively) liberty, freedom ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: pella French: peille Italian: peglia, Peglio (toponym) Occitan: pelha === References === “pilleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pilleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "pilleus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “pilleus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “pilleus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “pilleus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin