English → Latin
“pile” in Latin
palūsswamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, poolsublicawooden stake, pile or similar support, as for a bridge or building; wooden palisade or stockade used as defensive fortifacervusmass, heap, pile, stack, cluster; treasure; consonant cluster (pronounceable group of consonants that occur together)struōto place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together; to compose, construct, build; to ready, prepare, devisecumulusheap, pile; surplus; summitaedificiumbuilding, edifice, structurehaemorrhŏisa kind of poisonous serpentrogusfuneral pyre, funeral pile; the graveīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,cōnstruōto heap, bring, collect or gather together; to construct, build, fabricate, erect; to connect, construct
The English word pile itself goes back to Latin pīlum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pile s.
A stake driven into the ground, palus; sublica (driven into the earth, to support; e.g., a bridge): ☞ pila pontis was the column to the spring of an arch, fornix. To drive in piles (for a bridge), sublicas machinis adigere.
A heap, acervus; strues; cumulus: a funeral pile, rogus (☞ we find pyra only in the poets and later prose writers; it is PROP. = rogus ardens): to construct a funeral pile, rogum exstruere: to lay upon a funeral pile, in rogum imponere or inferre: to mount a funeral pile, in rogum ascendere: to light a funeral pile, rogum accendere.
An edifice, aedificium.
Piles (a kind of disease), haemorrhois, -idis, feminine (Cels.).
pile v.
construere: coacervare: accumulare: cumulare atque adaugere: aggerare: in acervum cumulare, exstruere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pile?
- The usual Latin words for “pile” are palūs, sublica, acervus; also struō, cumulus, aedificium. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.