Where does “pipistrelle” come from?
pipistrelle (French) comes 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-.
Ancestry of “pipistrelle”, step by step
Words derived from “pipistrelle”