The story
- French · derived fromptiline
- New Latin · borrowed fromptilīnum
- English todayptilinum
Borrowed from New Latin ptilīnum, itself an adaptation of the French ptiline.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ptilinum
Today it means: A bladder-like pouch on the head of schizophoran flies that by expanding enables the fly to emerge from its puparium. Full definition →
New Latin ptilīnum ← French ptiline