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English

Alternative forms

• Papillon

Etymology

From French papillon (“butterfly”), from Latin p?pili? (“butterfly, moth”). Doublet of pavilion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæp?j??/, /?pæpi??n/, /?pæp?l?n/, /p??p?li?n/

Noun

papillon (countable and uncountable, plural papillons)

1. (sometimes capitalized) A breed of small dog with large ears; a dog of that breed.
   • 2014 November 29, Rachel Nuwer, Lassie gets an upgrade, New Scientist, Issue 2997, page 47,

     The researchers tested various breeds, including border collies, golden retrievers, pit bulls, labradors and even Jackson's own little papillon.

Further reading

• Papillon (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?pili?. Doublet of pavillon. The swimming sense of "butterfly stroke" is probably a semantic loan from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.pi.j??/

Noun

papillon m (plural papillons)

1. butterfly

2. (by extension) someone brilliant, versatile and inconstant
   • 1833, Gautier, Albertus

     Avec sa cour folâtre de jeunes merveilleux, papillons de boudoirs […] Véronique était là.

3. (fashion) knot
   • 1842, Victor Hugo, Rhin

     Le grand papillon noir, c'est la coiffure du pays. Coiffure gracieuse. De larges rubans de soie noire ajustés en cocarde sur le front, […] derrière laquelle les cheveux tombent sur le dos en deux longues nattes.

4. (mechanics) Ellipsis of écrou papillon; wing nut, butterfly nut
5. (swimming) butterfly stroke

6. (colloquial) parking ticket

7. (engineering) butterfly valve

Derived terms

See also

• chenille f
• mite

Interjection

papillon

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Derived terms

• minute papillon

Further reading

• “papillon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

papillon m (invariable)

1. bow tie

English

Etymology

From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English butorfl?oge, buttorfl?oge, buterfl?oge (from butere (“butter”)), equivalent to butter +? fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.

An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been butor- (“beater”), a mutation of b?atan (“to beat”).

Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t?(?)fla?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [?b???fla?]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?b?t?fla?]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

butterfly (plural butterflies)

2. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]
3. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

5. (swimming) The butterfly stroke. [from 20th c.]
6. (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.

   I get terrible butterflies before an exam.

7. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     He was affable; therefore he was frivolous. The women liked him; therefore he was a butterfly.

Synonyms

• lep

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)

1. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

   butterflied shrimp

   Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.

2. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

See also

• caterpillar
• flutterby
• moth
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

Anagrams

• flutterby

Danish

Noun

butterfly c (singular definite butterflyen, plural indefinite butterfly)

1. bowtie

Inflection