Where does “pipistrelle” come from?
pipistrelle (English) comes from French pipistrelle, from Italian pipistrello, from Vulgar Latin *vespertillum, from Latin vespertīliō, from Latin vesper, from Proto-Italic *wesperos, from Proto-Indo-European wek(ʷ)speros, from Proto-Indo-European we-.
pipistrelle (English): Any of various species of bat of the genus...
Definitions
- Any of various species of bat of the genus...
Ancestry of “pipistrelle”, step by step