pantofle
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English pantuflis pl, pantuiffillis pl, from Middle French pantoufle (“slipper”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpantəfl̩/, /panˈtɒfl̩/
Noun
pantofle (plural pantofles)
- (archaic, historical) A slipper. [from 15th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Heroicall loue causing melancholy. His Pedegree, Power, and Extent.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 1, subsection 1, page 356:
- And although ſhe threatned to breake his bowe and arrowes, to clip his wings, and whipped him beſides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle, yet all would not ſerue, […].
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpantoflɛ]
Etymology 1
Noun
pantofle f
- (colloquial) alternative form of pantofel (“slipper”)
Declension
Further reading
- “pantofle”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
pantofle m inan
- inflection of pantofel:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural