Noun: pile
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pile |
| Plural f | piles |
Sample Sentences
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pile de cartons (stack of cardboard boxes)
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pile électrique (electric battery)
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pile ou face (heads or tails)
Nouns inflected like pile
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin pīla (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure. See: Italian Nouns '
pila'.
Verbs referencing "pile"
Spanish Nouns
pila, Romanian Nouns
pilă.
Translations