papilio

See also: Papilio

English

Etymology

From the genus name and its source, Latin pāpiliō. Doublet of papillon and pavilion.

Noun

papilio (plural papilios or papiliones)

1. (zoology) Any butterfly of the genus Papilio.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 365:

     At one place I would find a little crowd of the rare butterfly Tachyris zarinda, which would rise up at my approach, and display their vivid orange and cinnabar-red wings, while among them would flutter a few of the fine blue-banded Papilios.

Esperanto

Papilio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /papiˈlio/

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: pa‧pi‧li‧o

Noun

papilio (accusative singular papilion, plural papilioj, accusative plural papiliojn)

1. butterfly

See also

• raŭpo (“caterpillar”)
• tineo (“moth”)

Latin

pāpiliō.

Etymology

Probably a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to feel, touch, shake”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ (“butterfly”) (whence German Falter), Proto-Slavic *perpelъ (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Mazanderani پاپلی (pāp(e)lē, “butterfly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paːˈpɪ.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈpiː.li.o]

Noun

pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension

1. butterfly, moth
2. soul of a dead person
3. (Medieval Latin, military) tent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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, parpaglione
  • >? Italian: farfalla
  • Sicilian: parpagghiuni
• 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
  • Old French: papeillon (possibly semilearned)
    • French: papillon
  • Franco-Provençal: parpelyon, papelyon

    Valdôtain pavilhon

• 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
  • → Ido: papiliono
  • → Middle Dutch: pepel
    • Dutch: pepel
  • → Old Irish: pupall
    • Irish: puball
  • → Italian: papilione
  • → Norman: papillote
  • → Middle Welsh: pebyll
    • Welsh: pabell

Further reading

• “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, 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