papilio

From the genus name and its source, Latin pāpiliō. Doublet of papillon and pavilion.

papilio (plural papilios or papiliones)

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

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

• IPA^(key): /papiˈlio/

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

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”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ (“butterfly”) (whence German Falter), Proto-Slavic *perpelъ (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Mazanderani پاپلی (pāp(e)lē, “butterfly”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paːˈpɪ.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈpiː.li.o]

pāpiliō m (genitive pāpiliōnis); third declension

1. butterfly, moth
2. soul of a dead person
3. (Medieval Latin, military) tent

Third-declension noun.

Several forms through *pārpiliō

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: papiglione, padiglione, parpaglione
  • >? Italian: farfalla
  • Sicilian: parpagghiuni
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: parpaja, parpajen
  • Ligurian: parpagion
  • Lombard: parpaja, parpaj, parpala (northwestern)
  • Piedmontese: parpajon, parpajora, parpajola
  • Romagnol: parpaja, pavaja, pavajòt
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: paveillon
    • → English: pavilion
    • French: pavillon
    • Portuguese: pavilhão
    • Spanish: pabellón
  • Old French: papeillon (possibly semilearned)
    • French: papillon
  • Franco-Provençal: parpelyon, papelyon

    Valdôtain pavilhon

• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pavelló, papalló, papallona, papaió
  • Occitan: parpalhon, parpalhòl, parpalhòu

    Gascon: pavalh, pavalhon, parpalha, parpalh

    Languedocien: parpanhòl (meridional), parpalhòt (oriental)

• Borrowings
  • → Esperanto: papilio
  • → Ido: papiliono
  • → Middle Dutch: pepel
    • Dutch: pepel
  • → Old Irish: pupall
    • Irish: puball
  • → Italian: papilione
  • → Norman: papillote
  • → Middle Welsh: pebyll
    • 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 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