mariposa

Borrowed from Spanish mariposa (“butterfly”).

• Audio (US):

  (file)

mariposa (plural mariposas)

1. A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.).

• parosmia

Borrowed from Spanish mariposa.

mariposa f (plural mariposes)

1. butterfly

Inherited from Spanish mariposa.

mariposa

1. butterfly

Borrowed from Spanish mariposa.

• Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧po‧sa

mariposa f (plural mariposas)

1. a butterfly
2. (Portugal, swimming) butterfly stroke
3. a moth

• mariposista

mariposa f (plural mariposas)

1. (Campidanese) Alternative form of maniposa

From the phrase María pósate (“Mary, alight!”). Displaced Latin pāpiliō, which would have yielded *papilión or *papillón.

• IPA^(key): /maɾiˈposa/ [ma.ɾiˈpo.sa]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: ma‧ri‧po‧sa

mariposa f (plural mariposas)

1. butterfly
2. (slang) male homosexual
3. (swimming) butterfly stroke
4. creeping beggarweed (Desmodium incanum)
5. white ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
6. tremors felt in the stomach when one is nervous.

• ⇒ English: mariposa lily
• → Portuguese: mariposa

• oruga f (“caterpillar”)
• polilla f (“moth”)

• “mariposa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10