"pila" is slang for "dick" in Portuguese!

guessing the portuguese word is derived from "pilum"? the roman word for spear.

Abraxas said:
guessing the portuguese word is derived from "pilum"? the roman word for spear.

Interesting. Dutch also has the (now somewhat archaic) word "piel" (pronunciation: "peel") which also means "penis" and, as I suspected, is also derived from that Roman word.

Besides the vulgar definition as "penis", the word "piel" apparently innitially meant "arrow", which is a slight departure from the meaning of the original Roman word.

Funnily enough, the usage of "piel" as "arrow" has been completely phased out in Dutch and been replaced by "pijl" (which may be similar in writing but has a pretty different pronunciation, like the English word 'pile') while the vulgar meaning is still understood.

spoiler(Apologies for the rant, etymology is pretty interesting to me.)