pillar的词源

英文词源

pillar: pillar: [13] Pillar comes ultimately from Latin pīla ‘pillar’ (source also of English compile, pilaster [16], and pile ‘heap’). In Vulgar Latin this was extended to *pīlāre, which passed into Anglo-Norman piler. This was the form in which English originally acquired it, and the -ar ending was not grafted on to it until the 14th century.
=> compile, pilaster, pile
pillar (n.): c. 1200, from Old French piler "pillar, column, pier" (12c., Modern French pilier) and directly from Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier." Figurative sense of "prop or support of an institution or community" is first recorded early 14c. Phrase pillar to post is c. 1600, originally of tennis, exact meaning obscure.

来自拉丁语pila,柱子，词源同pole,pale,impale.引申词义桥墩。

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它和单词pile（堆；大量）同源，且二者的拉丁原词pila就表示“柱子”；同源的还有pilaster（壁柱；半露柱）。“堆”和“柱”的关系不难理解，形态上都向上隆起。