Pilot

What “Pilot” means

Noun

1. A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
2. A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
3. A guide book for maritime navigation.
4. An instrument for detecting the compass error.
5. A pilot vehicle.

Adj

1. Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
2. Used to control or activate another device.
3. Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle or combination.

Verb

1. To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
2. To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
3. To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
4. To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
5. To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.

Where the word comes from

From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).

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