pilar

Learned borrowing from Latin pilāris, from Latin pilus (“a hair”) +‎ -ar.

pilar (not comparable)

1. (chiefly medicine) Relating to hair.

   pilar muscle; pilar cyst

• April, Plair, prial

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [piˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [piˈlaɾ]

pilar m (plural pilars)

1. pillar
2. (castells) a castell built with just one casteller on each level
3. (castells) each of the vertical columns of castellers making up the tronc of a castell (syn. rengla)

• “pilar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pilar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pilar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pilar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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From Dutch pilaar, from Medieval Latin pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“a pillar”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpilar]
• Hyphenation: pi‧lar

pilar (first-person possessive pilarku, second-person possessive pilarmu, third-person possessive pilarnya)

1. pillar:
   1. (architecture) a large post, often used as supporting architecture.
   2. (figurative) an essential part of something that provides support.

      Synonyms: dasar, induk

2. (nautical) mast: a tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.

• “pilar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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pilar m (definite singular pilaren, indefinite plural pilarer, definite plural pilarene)

1. a pillar, column
2. a pier (of a bridge)

• grunnpilar

• “pilar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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• piler

pilar f or m

1. indefinite masculine plural of pil

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pilar m (definite singular pilaren, indefinite plural pilarar, definite plural pilarane)

1. a pillar, column
2. a pier (of a bridge)

• grunnpilar

• “pilar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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• IPA^(key): /piˈla/

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

pilar m (plural pilars)

1. pillar

From Old Occitan, inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to grind, pound”).

pilar

1. to crush; to pulverize

• trissar

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• Hyphenation: pi‧lar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

• pillar (obsolete)

pilar m (plural pilares)

1. pillar (large post, often used as supporting architecture)
2. (figurative) pillar (essential part of something)

Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to grind, pound”).

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1. to grind using a pestle

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From pila +‎ -ar.

pìlār m (Cyrillic spelling пѝла̄р)

1. sawyer

• “pilar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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• IPA^(key): /piˈlaɾ/ [piˈlaɾ]
• Hyphenation: pi‧lar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

pilar m (plural pilares)

1. pillar, pier, mainstay
2. (rugby) the player who is next to the hooker in a scrum

• Pilar f (name)

Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to grind, pound”).

pilar (first-person singular present pilo, first-person singular preterite pilé, past participle pilado)

1. to pound

• “pilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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pilar

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of pil

pilar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of pila.

• april