papilio
See also: Papilio
English
Noun
papilio (plural papilios)
- (zoology) Any butterfly of the genus Papilio.
Esperanto
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Papilio
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [papiˈlio]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: pa‧pi‧li‧o
Noun
papilio (accusative singular papilion, plural papilioj, accusative plural papiliojn)
- butterfly
See also
- raŭpo (“caterpillar”)
- tineo (“moth”)
Latin
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pāpiliō.
Etymology
Probably a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to feel, touch, shake”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ (whence German Falter), Old Mazanderani پاپلی (pāp(e)lē, “butterfly”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paːˈpi.li.oː/, [päːˈpɪlʲioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈpi.li.o/, [päˈpiːlio]
Noun
pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension
- butterfly, moth
- Soul of a dead person
- (Medieval Latin, military) tent
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pāpiliō | pāpiliōnēs |
Genitive | pāpiliōnis | pāpiliōnum |
Dative | pāpiliōnī | pāpiliōnibus |
Accusative | pāpiliōnem | pāpiliōnēs |
Ablative | pāpiliōne | pāpiliōnibus |
Vocative | pāpiliō | pāpiliōnēs |
Descendants
Several forms through *pārpiliō
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: papiglione; padiglione
- >? Italian: farfalla
- Padanian:
- Emilian: parpaja, parpajen
- Ligurian: parpagion
- Lombard: parpaja, parpaj; parpala (northwestern)
- Piedmontese: parpajon, parpajora, parpajola
- Romagnol: parpaja, pavaja, pavajòt
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: paveillon
- → English: pavilion
- French: pavillon
- Portuguese: pavilhão
- Spanish: pabellón
- Franco-Provençal: parpelyon, papelyon
- Valdôtain pavilhon
- French: pavillon
- Old French: paveillon
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: pavelló; papalló, papallona, papaió
- Occitan: parpalhon, parpalhòl, parpalhòu
- Gascon: pavalh, pavalhon, parpalha, parpalh
- Languedocien: parpanhòl (meridional); parpalhòt (oriental)
- Borrowings
- → Esperanto: papilio
- → French: papillon
- → Ido: papiliono
- → Interlingue: papilion
- → Irish: puball
- → Italian: papilione
- → Norman: papillote
- → Novial: papilione
- → Welsh: pabell
References
- “papilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “papilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- papilio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- papilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “papilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers