papilio
See also: Papilio
English edit
Noun edit
papilio (plural papilios)
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
papilio (accusative singular papilion, plural papilioj, accusative plural papiliojn)
See also edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paːˈpi.li.oː/, [päːˈpɪlʲioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈpi.li.o/, [päˈpiːlio]
Noun edit
pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension
Declension edit
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 edit
Several forms through *pārpiliō
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: papiglione; padiglione
- >? Italian: farfalla
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings
References edit
- “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
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444