paparium

Latin

Etymology

From pāpa (“baby-talk for food”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *pāpārius (relating to foods referenced by babies).

Noun

pāpārium n (genitive pāpāriī or pāpārī); second declension

1. pap, baby food

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāpārium	pāpāria
Genitive	pāpāriī pāpārī1	pāpāriōrum
Dative	pāpāriō	pāpāriīs
Accusative	pāpārium	pāpāria
Ablative	pāpāriō	pāpāriīs
Vocative	pāpārium	pāpāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• papa

References

• “paparium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paparium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• paparium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.