noun, feminine/pi.lyl/plural: pilules
pill (small object to be swallowed); the contraceptive pill; an unpleasant situation or piece of news
“prendre la pilule”
Borrowed from Medieval Latin pilula, apparently first attested in the fourteenth century, in turn inherited from the Classical Latin, attested in the medical sense in Pliny. Note that Italian pillola and Spanish píldora are widely regarded as inheritances, not borrowings.