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And Italian. It’s actually named after Alessandro Volta’s (the guy who named the Volt) name for the "Pila di Volta" - his stack of soaked rags that stored electricity, or what we'd nowadays call a battery stack. Pila is a Pile that stores electricity or a Battery - Pila :)


Huh. I always sorta associated the word with a voltaic pile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaic_pile ), which... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pila gives an etymology of coming from Latin's "pīla" = "pillar", which feels close? Or maybe it's just a coincidence.


That’s 100% it! It was named after the Voltaic Pile or Pile/Stack of Volts.




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