pill – English noun declension

English noun forms of pill

Noun: pill
Singularpill
Pluralpills

Sample Sentences

  • Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken. [1864, Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary:]
  • Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
  • She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.
  • I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill [1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:]
  • Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed. [1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:]
  • "It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill." [1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]]
  • You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her. [1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:]
  • Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation. [2000, Susan Isaacs, Shining Through:]
  • One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor. [1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True:]
  • "Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines. [1931, Canadian National Magazine, page 17:]
  • Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker. [2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pil-?
3. Latin pilus?
4. Latin pila
5. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
7. Proto-Italic *-elos
8. Latin -ula
9. Latin pilula, pillulabor.
10. Middle Low German pilleder.
11. Middle Dutch pilleder.
12. Middle English pille
13. English pill
14. From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
15. * (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill. See: Middle English Nouns 'pille', Dutch Nouns 'pil', Latin Nouns 'pila'.