πάπυρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown.
Perhaps from Egyptian, since writing on it is widely believed to have originated in Egypt, but no Egyptian cognate is known.
Beekes notes that the suffix *-ῡρ- is reconstructed for Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pá.pyː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpa.py.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.py.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.py.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpa.pi.ros/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πᾰ́πῡρος ho pápūros |
τὼ πᾰπῡ́ρω tṑ papū́rō |
οἱ πᾰ́πῡροι hoi pápūroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πᾰπῡ́ρου toû papū́rou |
τοῖν πᾰπῡ́ροιν toîn papū́roin |
τῶν πᾰπῡ́ρων tôn papū́rōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πᾰπῡ́ρῳ tôi papū́rōi |
τοῖν πᾰπῡ́ροιν toîn papū́roin |
τοῖς πᾰπῡ́ροις toîs papū́rois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πᾰ́πῡρον tòn pápūron |
τὼ πᾰπῡ́ρω tṑ papū́rō |
τοὺς πᾰπῡ́ρους toùs papū́rous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πᾰ́πῡρε pápūre |
πᾰπῡ́ρω papū́rō |
πᾰ́πῡροι pápūroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- παπῡ́ρινος (papū́rinos)
Descendants
- → Latin: papȳrus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “πάπυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάπυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάπυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πάπυρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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