The story
- Latin · derived frompulvīnus“cushion, pillow, bolster”
- Italian · borrowed frompulvino
- English todaypulvino
Italian pulvino, from Latin pulvīnus (“cushion, pillow, bolster”). Doublet of pillow, polverine, pulvinus, pulvillus, and pulvinulus, as well as others.
Words from the same roots
Latinpulvīnus all →
pillowpulvinus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.