Translation
doll; puppet
Word origin
From Latin pupa, a girl or a doll, the same word biology uses for the pupa of an insect. English pupil, for the small figure reflected in an eye, and puppet both come from it.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pupa
- English cognates
- pupa, pupil, puppet
Examples
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The girl sleeps with her doll.
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He made a doll out of wood.
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At the theatre we saw big puppets.
covers the child's doll and the theatre puppet alike; if the distinction matters, marioneto is the one on strings. Pupteatro is a puppet theatre, and pupludo is the game of playing with dolls.
The insect sense is krizalido or depending on which entomologist you ask, which is a rare case of Esperanto inheriting an English ambiguity rather than tidying it away.
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