catepeluse
Old French
Etymology
cate (“female cat”) + peluse (“hairy”). See modern French chatte, pileuse.
Noun
catepeluse oblique singular, f (oblique plural catepeluses, nominative singular catepeluse, nominative plural catepeluses)
- (Anglo-Norman) caterpillar (larva of a butterfly)
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “chatepelose”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- catepelus on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cattus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 518