English
piles
Piles comes from Latin pila ‘ball’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpila‘ball’
- Englishearliest quotation 1648piles
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpila‘ball’
- Englishearliest quotation 1648piles
Earliest quotation: 1648, Robert Herrick, Another: “Who with thy leaves shall wipe (at need) The…”
Linked words
through Latin pilus ‘hair’
peel, plush, pillage, pilar, 22 more
through Latin pila ‘ball’
Today it means
noun Haemorrhoids.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pila / piles