pantofle

English

Alternative forms

• pantable, pantoble, pantoffle, pantophle, pantouffle, pantoufle, pantuffle

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: […] 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

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 (in Czech)

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