pilae

pilae is a Latin form of pila, meaning “ball; pillar; (pilum) javelin”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.15: … gesticius ex materia fuerat agger. Ubi aut spatium inter muros aut imbecillitas materiae postulare videretur, pilae interponuntur, traversaria tigna iniciuntur, quae firmamento esse possint, et quicquid est contignatum cratib …

Seneca the Younger, Naturales Quaestiones 4.11.3: Pilae proprietas est cum aequalitate quadam rotunditas, aequalitatem autem hanc accipe quam uides in lusoria pila: …

All forms of pila (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.