"Papillion" meaning in English

See Papillion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Named after Papillion Creek, derived from French papillon. See also a quotation at opposit. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|papillon}} French papillon Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Papillion
  1. A city, the county seat of Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. Categories (place): Cities in Nebraska, USA, Cities in the United States, Places in Nebraska, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Papillion-en-name--T8KVv5o Categories (other): County seats of Nebraska, USA, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Forms: Papillions [plural]
Etymology: From Old French papillon (“butterfly”), possibly a nickname for a rash or inconstant person. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|papillon||butterfly}} Old French papillon (“butterfly”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Papillion (plural Papillions)
  1. A surname from Old French.
    Sense id: en-Papillion-en-name-0tkWYPLU Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Papillion meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "papillon"
      },
      "expansion": "French papillon",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after Papillion Creek, derived from French papillon. See also a quotation at opposit.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Papillion",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in Nebraska, USA",
          "orig": "en:Cities in Nebraska, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Cities in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "County seats of Nebraska, USA",
          "orig": "en:County seats of Nebraska, USA",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Nebraska, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in Nebraska, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city, the county seat of Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-Papillion-en-name--T8KVv5o",
      "links": [
        [
          "county seat",
          "county seat"
        ],
        [
          "Sarpy County",
          "Sarpy County#English"
        ],
        [
          "Nebraska",
          "Nebraska#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Papillion",
    "Papillion Creek"
  ],
  "word": "Papillion"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "papillon",
        "4": "",
        "5": "butterfly"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French papillon (“butterfly”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French papillon (“butterfly”), possibly a nickname for a rash or inconstant person.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Papillions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Papillion (plural Papillions)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname from Old French."
      ],
      "id": "en-Papillion-en-name-0tkWYPLU",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Papillion"
  ],
  "word": "Papillion"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "papillon"
      },
      "expansion": "French papillon",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after Papillion Creek, derived from French papillon. See also a quotation at opposit.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Papillion",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Cities in Nebraska, USA",
        "en:Cities in the United States",
        "en:County seats of Nebraska, USA",
        "en:Places in Nebraska, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city, the county seat of Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "county seat",
          "county seat"
        ],
        [
          "Sarpy County",
          "Sarpy County#English"
        ],
        [
          "Nebraska",
          "Nebraska#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Papillion",
    "Papillion Creek"
  ],
  "word": "Papillion"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "papillon",
        "4": "",
        "5": "butterfly"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French papillon (“butterfly”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French papillon (“butterfly”), possibly a nickname for a rash or inconstant person.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Papillions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Papillion (plural Papillions)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames",
        "English surnames from Old French"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname from Old French."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Papillion"
  ],
  "word": "Papillion"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (91e95e7 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.