papilio

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English

Noun

papilio (plural papilios)

  1. (zoology) Any butterfly of the genus Papilio.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

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

Noun

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

  1. butterfly

See also

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”).[1]

Pronunciation

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

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pāpiliō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444

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’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
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