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)

  1. (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: Printed by 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]

Noun

pantofle f

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of pantofel (“slipper”)
Declension
Declension of pantofle (soft feminine)
singular plural
nominative pantofle pantofle
genitive pantofle pantoflí
dative pantofli pantoflím
accusative pantofli pantofle
vocative pantofle pantofle
locative pantofli pantoflích
instrumental pantoflí pantoflemi

Further reading
  • pantofle in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pantofle m inan

  1. inflection of pantofel:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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