papaver
See also: Papaver
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name, from Latin papāver.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
papaver (plural papavers)
Derived terms edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
papaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)
- papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver
- several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy.
- Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pavot. Doublet of pavot.
Noun edit
papaver m (plural papavers)
Further reading edit
- “papaver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown.
Manaster Ramer sees here a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”).[1]
Some have tried to link it to pāscō (“to feed”),[2] or to an imitative root *pap (“to swell”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paˈpaː.u̯er/, [päˈpäːu̯ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈpa.ver/, [päˈpäːver]
Noun edit
papāver n (genitive papāveris); third declension
- poppy
- Synonym: rhoeas
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.54:
- Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.
- It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.
- Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.
- seed
- (Can we date this quote?), Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35
- De papavere ficus gratissimae et suavissimae ventosa et vana caprificus exsurgit
- From the seed of the most delicious and grateful fig branches out the useless and deceptive wild fig.
- (Can we date this quote?), Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35
Usage notes edit
Anteclassically, papāver was masculine.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | papāver | papāvera |
Genitive | papāveris | papāverum |
Dative | papāverī | papāveribus |
Accusative | papāver | papāvera |
Ablative | papāvere | papāveribus |
Vocative | papāver | papāvera |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- papaver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Manaster Ramer, Alexis. 2010. A simply perfect bear of an etymology, or two, or even more. Unpublished.
- ^ Lewis & Short