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7-letter words (1 found)

PAPILIO,

5-letter words (6 found)

AIOLI,APIOL,PALPI,PAOLI,PILAO,PIPAL,

4-letter words (14 found)

ILIA,LIPA,LIPO,OPAL,PAIL,PALI,PALP,PIAL,PILA,PILI,PIPA,PIPI,PLAP,PLOP,

3-letter words (17 found)

AIL,ALP,APO,APP,LAP,LIP,LOP,OIL,OPA,PAL,PAP,PIA,PIP,POA,POI,POL,POP,

2-letter words (11 found)

AI,AL,IO,LA,LI,LO,OI,OP,PA,PI,PO,

You can make 49 words from papilio according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of papilio

papilio

Noun

papilio (plural papilios)

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

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [papiˈlio]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -io
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pi‧li‧o

Noun

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

  1. butterfly

See also

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

Latin

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”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /paːˈpi.li.oː/, [päːˈpɪlʲioː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈpi.li.o/, [päˈpiːlio]

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.

Descendants

Several forms through *pārpiliō

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: papiglione; padiglione
    • >? Italian: farfalla
  • 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
    • Franco-Provençal: parpelyon, papelyon
      Valdôtain pavilhon
    • French: pavillon
  • 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
    • → French: papillon
    • → Ido: papiliono
    • → Interlingue: papilion
    • → Old Irish: pupall
      • Irish: puball
    • → Italian: papilione
    • → Norman: papillote
    • → Novial: papilione
    • → Middle Welsh: pebyll
      • Welsh: pabell

References

  • “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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