papilio

See also: Papilio

Esperanto

Papilio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /papiˈlio/

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Noun

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

1. butterfly

See also

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

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Latin

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/, [paːˈpɪ.lʲi.oː]

A butterfly.

Noun

pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension

1. butterfly, moth
2. (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

• Catalan: papallona, papalló, papaió
• Esperanto: papilio
• French: papillon, pavillon
• Ido: papiliono
• Interlingue: papilion
• Irish: puball
• Italian: padiglione
• Norman: papillote
• Novial: papilione
• Portuguese: pavilhão
• Spanish: pabellón
• 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, 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