pavilo

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *papīlum, from Latin papȳrus. Attested from ca. 1400.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈβilo/

Noun

pavilo

1. candlewick

Descendants

• Spanish: pabilo, pábilo, pavíl
  • → Sardinian: pabilu

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “pabilo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 329