Pill Definition

Origin of Pill

• From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from Old English pyll (“a pool, pill"), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek"), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream"), from Proto-Indo-European *bale- (“bog, marsh"). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek"), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet"), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle"). More at pool.

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• Middle English pille from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German pille Old French pile all from Latin pilula diminutive of pila ball

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English pillen to plunder, peel from Old English pilian peel¹ and from Old French piller to plunder pillage

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Middle Low German or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pilula.

  From Wiktionary

• From Latin pilō (“depilate"), from pilus (“hair").

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