παπᾶς

See also: παπάς and πάπας

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation
 

Noun

παπᾶς • (papâs) m (genitive παπᾶ); ? declension plural: παπάδες (papádes)

  1. (Byzantine, Christianity) accent perispomene[1] for παπάς (papás):[2] father (priest)

Declension

Inflectional forms:[2]

  • singular genitive & vocative παπά (papá) / παπᾶ (papâ)
  • singular accusative παπάν (papán) / παπᾶν (papân)
  • plural nominative & vocative: παπάδες (papádes)
  • plural genitive: παπάδων (papádōn), dialectal: παπάδω (papádō), rare: παπαδῶν (papadôn)
  • plural accusative: παπάδας (papádas), post 14th century: παπάδες (papádes)
  • ἀπόπαπας m (apópapas, “bad priest”)
  • βούπαπας m (boúpapas, “fat priest”)
  • καλογερόπαπας m (kalogerópapas, “monk priest”)
  • παπα- (papa-) (before male names)
  • παπαδία f (papadía) παπαδιά f (papadiá) / παππαδιά (pappadiá)
  • παπαδικός (papadikós, adjective)
  • παπάδιον (papádion)
  • παπαδίτζης (papadítzēs)
  • παπαδοπούλα f (papadopoúla, “daughter of priest”)
  • παπαδόπουλον (papadópoulon)
  • παπακυρ- (papakur-, “priest Mr”) (before male names)

and see πάπας m (pápas, “the pope”)

Descendants
  • > Greek: παπάς (papás) (inherited)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: попъ (popŭ) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰 (papa) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Latin: pāpa (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. παπᾶς - Sophocles, E. A. (1900) Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 839
  2. The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. (2019) by David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou & Notis Toufexis. Cambridge University Press. 4 vols. DOI - intro, §2.2. Masculine nouns in /as/, clitic paradigm παπάς/παπᾶς: page 306.
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