piler
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
piler (plural pilers)
- One who piles something
- 2007 May 10, Penelope Green, “Order and Chaos in a Single Heartbeat”, in New York Times[1]:
- Houses and photography sets seem to work better, he said, if “I exert a system of precision.” Ms. Ford, 33, said she is by nature a piler and stacker but has learned to follow what she described good-naturedly as “the Charlie Code.”
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to ram down”), from pīla (“column”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.le/
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Verb
piler
- (transitive, cooking) to crush
- (intransitive) to slam on the brakes of a vehicle, making it come to a sudden stop
Conjugation
Conjugation of piler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | piler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pilant /pi.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pilé /pi.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pile /pil/ |
piles /pil/ |
pile /pil/ |
pilons /pi.lɔ̃/ |
pilez /pi.le/ |
pilent /pil/ |
| imperfect | pilais /pi.lɛ/ |
pilais /pi.lɛ/ |
pilait /pi.lɛ/ |
pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/ |
piliez /pi.lje/ |
pilaient /pi.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pilai /pi.le/ |
pilas /pi.la/ |
pila /pi.la/ |
pilâmes /pi.lam/ |
pilâtes /pi.lat/ |
pilèrent /pi.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | pilerai /pil.ʁe/ |
pileras /pil.ʁa/ |
pilera /pil.ʁa/ |
pilerons /pil.ʁɔ̃/ |
pilerez /pil.ʁe/ |
pileront /pil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerait /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerions /pi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pileriez /pi.lə.ʁje/ |
pileraient /pil.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pile /pil/ |
piles /pil/ |
pile /pil/ |
pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/ |
piliez /pi.lje/ |
pilent /pil/ |
| imperfect2 | pilasse /pi.las/ |
pilasses /pi.las/ |
pilât /pi.la/ |
pilassions /pi.la.sjɔ̃/ |
pilassiez /pi.la.sje/ |
pilassent /pi.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pile /pil/ |
— | pilons /pi.lɔ̃/ |
pilez /pi.le/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
- pilon (“pestle”)
Further reading
- “piler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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Latin
Verb
piler
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pilō
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
piler m or f
- indefinite plural of pil
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
piler f or m
- indefinite feminine plural of pil
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *pilāre, from Latin pila.
Noun
piler oblique singular, m (oblique plural pilers, nominative singular pilers, nominative plural piler)