Where does “pupille” come from?

pupille (Middle English) comes from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla, from Latin pupula, from Latin pupa, from Latin pupus, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂w- — few, little; smallness.

Ancestry of “pupille”, step by step

pupille traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French pupille

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpupilleorphan
2Latinpūpilla—
3Latinpupulapupil; little lass
4Latinpupagirl, little girl; doll, puppet; pupa
5Latinpupusa boy, a child; a puppet; the pupil of the eye
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₂w-few, little; smallness

via Anglo-Norman pupille

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanpupilleorphan
2Latinpūpillusorphan, ward
3Latinpūpusa boy, a child

Words derived from “pupille”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peh₂w- →Every word from Latin pupus →Every word from Latin pupa →