pilleus
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the same Proto-Indo-European source as Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Old High German filz, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “felt”), Albanian plis (“felt”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpil.le.us/, [ˈpɪlːʲeʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpil.le.us/, [ˈpilːeus]
Noun[edit]
pilleus m (genitive pilleī); second declension
- a felt cap worn at the Saturnalia, and given to freed slaves
- (figuratively) liberty, freedom
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pilleus | pilleī |
| Genitive | pilleī | pilleōrum |
| Dative | pilleō | pilleīs |
| Accusative | pilleum | pilleōs |
| Ablative | pilleō | pilleīs |
| Vocative | pillee | pilleī |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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’s 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