Where does “pillar” come from?
pillar (Spanish) comes from French piller, from Middle French piller, from Old French pillier, from Vulgar Latin piliare, from Latin pilāre, from Latin pila, from Latin pīlus, from Latin pīlum — to grind, to crush.
pillar (Spanish): to catch, get, to grab; to pilfer, steal; to tag
Definitions
- to catch, get, to grab; to pilfer, steal; to tag
Ancestry of “pillar”, step by step