The story
- Latin · derived fromvespertilio
- Italian · derived frompipistrello“bat”
- French · borrowed frompipistrelle
- English todaypipistrelle
From French pipistrelle, from Italian pipistrello (“bat”), variant of vipistrello, from Latin vespertilio.
Words from the same roots
Latinvespertilio all →
vespertilian
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.