The story
- Latin · learned borrowing frompulvīnus“cushion, pillow, bolster”
- English todaypulvinus
Learned borrowing from Latin pulvīnus (“cushion, pillow, bolster”). Doublet of pillow, polverine, pulvino, pulvillus, and pulvinulus, as well as others.
Words from the same roots
Latinpulvīnus all →
pillowpulvino
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.