pillage
PIL-ij · noun, verb
Origin
From Old French pillage, from piller ("plunder"), which traces to an unattested Late Latin sense of piliō — likely a figurative use of Latin pilō, "to remove hair," from pilus ("hair").
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Related words
It shares a root with pilus, the Latin word for hair.