PILE Copy link • PILE 1. 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.). 2. v. construere: coacervare: accumulare: cumulare atque adaugere: aggerare: in acervum cumulare, exstruere.