Translation
butterfly
Word origin
Straight from Latin papilio, which covered both butterflies and moths. The same word gave French papillon and, by way of a tent whose flaps spread like wings, English pavilion.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- papilio
- English cognates
- pavilion, papillon
Examples
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A blue butterfly flew above the flowers.
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In the garden I saw many butterflies.
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The butterfly has beautiful wings.
Esperanto keeps the Latin word for the day-flier and builds the night one: a moth is a noktopapilio, or tineo when it is the sort that eats your jumpers. Watch the stress, which falls on the second-to-last vowel as always, so it is papi-LI-o with four syllables and the i and o kept apart.
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