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Pilat is a common surname in Central Europe.〔(Name Statistics ''Pilat is the #45896 most common last name. 0.0005% of last names in the US are Pilat. Around 1250 US last names are Pilat,'' website ) accessed 22 August 2007.〕 It is spelled simply ''Pilat'' in Western countries such as France and Austria, ''Pilát'' in Czech and Slovak, and ''Piłat'' in Polish. This may refer to individuals bearing the last name or the name itself. The Southeast corner of Poland appears to be an ancestral heartland, with Lublin boasting a large number of the nearly 6,879 Poles sharing the surname. There are two different Piłatka localities in the Mazowsze and Lublin regions. It is also the name of a natural park near Lyon in France. ==Origin== *German: from the Saxon word for 'strong sword', or bilihart. (Bihel = sword or ax.) *French: habitational name from Pilat in Gironde, The Great Dune of Pyla in La Côte-d'Or, and Mont Pilat in Loire. The name is believed to be derived by one of two tribes of Celtic peoples - the Séguisaves and Allobroges in whose language ''Pi-'' = mount and ''-lat'' = broad.〔(Le Pilat et Pélussin Histoire sur www.infopilat.net, website ) accessed 22 August 2007.〕 *Italian: in ancient Rome, a ''pilum'' was a throwing spear carried by the legionnaires. Another theory of Pontius Pilate's origin is that he belonged to the Equestrian class of people. *Slavic (Czech, Slovak and Polish): an individual acting/portraying the character of Pontius Pilate, particularly in a Passion play. A popular misconception is that, spelling differences aside, the historical figure of Pontius Pilate is somehow the progenitor of this last name. In actuality, he hailed from a Roman tribe properly called the ''Pontii?''〔(Last Name Meaning and Origin of Pilat, website ) accessed 22 August 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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