pill的词源

英文词源

pill: pill: see pellet
pill (n.): "small ball or round mass of medicine," c. 1400, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German pille and Middle French pile, all from Latin pilula "pill," literally "little ball," diminutive of pila "a ball, playing ball," said to be related to pilus "hair" if the original notion was "hairball." Figurative sense "something disagreeable that must be swallowed" is from 1540s; slang meaning "boring person" is recorded from 1871. The pill "contraceptive pill" is from 1957.
pill (v.): 1736, "to dose on pills," from pill (n.). From 1882 as "to form into pills." Related: Pilled; pilling.

来自拉丁语pilula,药丸，来自pila,球，球体，-ula,小词后缀，可能来自pilus,头发，毛发，词源同pile,depilatory.词义可能是由毛发引申为发球，绒球，最后指球体，小球。

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