The story
- Latin · derived frompāpiliō“butterfly, moth”
- French · borrowed frompapillon“butterfly”
- English todaypapillon
From French papillon (“butterfly”), from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”). Doublet of papilio and pavilion.
Words from the same roots
Frenchpapillon all →
Papillion
Latinpāpiliō all →
Peeblespapiliodisparplepapilionaceous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.