πῖλος

See also: πηλός and πίλος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *pilos. Cognates include Latin pilus (“a hair”), pila (“a ball”), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), and Old English felt (English felt).

πῖλος • (pîlos) m (genitive πῑ́λου); second declension

wool or hair wrought into felt
- Homer, Iliad 10.265
anything made of felt, especially a felt skullcap
- Hesiod, Works and Days 544
1. a felt shoe
  - Cratinus, Soft Ones 5
2. felt cloth
  - Herodotus, Histories 4.23, 73, 75
a cottony ball formed on some trees
- Theophrastus, On Plants 3.7,4
- Theophrastus, On Plants 4.8,7
1. a ball, globe
translation for Latin pilus, as in primus pilus

Second declension of ὁ πῖλος; τοῦ πῑ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῖλος ho pîlos	τὼ πῑ́λω tṑ pī́lō	οἱ πῖλοι hoi pîloi
Genitive	τοῦ πῑ́λου toû pī́lou	τοῖν πῑ́λοιν toîn pī́loin	τῶν πῑ́λων tôn pī́lōn
Dative	τῷ πῑ́λῳ tôi pī́lōi	τοῖν πῑ́λοιν toîn pī́loin	τοῖς πῑ́λοις toîs pī́lois
Accusative	τὸν πῖλον tòn pîlon	τὼ πῑ́λω tṑ pī́lō	τοὺς πῑ́λους toùs pī́lous
Vocative	πῖλε pîle	πῑ́λω pī́lō	πῖλοι pîloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.