pavilion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin.[1] Doublet of papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pavilion (plural pavilions)
- An ornate tent.
- A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
- A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
- (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
- A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
- The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
- (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
- (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
- (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
- A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
- (heraldry) An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
- A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
- 1819 or 1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 200:
- For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
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Translations edit
ornate tent
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light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
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structure erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
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cricket building
detached / semi-detached building in a building complex
cartiliginous part of the outer ear — see pinna
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Verb edit
pavilion (third-person singular simple present pavilions, present participle pavilioning, simple past and past participle pavilioned)
- (transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
- (transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
- (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").
Translations edit
furnish with a pavilion
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pavilion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French pavillon or German Pavillon.
Noun edit
pavilion n (plural pavilioane)
Declension edit
Declension of pavilion
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pavilion | pavilionul | (niște) pavilioane | pavilioanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) pavilion | pavilionului | (unor) pavilioane | pavilioanelor |
vocative | pavilionule | pavilioanelor |