papilio

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

• IPA^(key): /papiˈlio/

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

1. butterfly

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

Probably a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to feel, touch, shake”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːˈpi.li.oː/, [paːˈpɪ.li.oː]

A butterfly.

pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension

1. butterfly, moth
2. (Medieval Latin, military) tent

Third declension.

• 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

• 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