See also: pappò

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpap.po/
  • Rhymes: -appo
  • Hyphenation: pàp‧po

Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic. Compare pappa, pappare.

Noun

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pappo m (plural pappi)

  1. (childish) food

Further reading

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  • pappo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin pappus from Ancient Greek πάππος (páppos), affectionate term for elderly men (referencing beards).

Noun

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pappo m (plural pappi)

  1. (botany) pappus

Further reading

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  • pappo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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pappo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pappare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unclear. Possibly a nursery word of imitative origin,[1][2] or from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (eat, feed)) from which are derived pāscō, pastor, pābulum, pābulor.

Compare with English pap, Portuguese papar, Bulgarian папам, Serbo-Croatian папати/papati, German Pappe, Czech papat.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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pappō (present infinitive pappāre, perfect active pappāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to eat, eat pap
    liberto opus est quod pappet, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 62

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of pappō (first conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pappō pappās pappat pappāmus pappātis pappant
imperfect pappābam pappābās pappābat pappābāmus pappābātis pappābant
future pappābō pappābis pappābit pappābimus pappābitis pappābunt
perfect pappāvī pappāvistī pappāvit pappāvimus pappāvistis pappāvērunt,
pappāvēre
pluperfect pappāveram pappāverās pappāverat pappāverāmus pappāverātis pappāverant
future perfect pappāverō pappāveris pappāverit pappāverimus pappāveritis pappāverint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pappem pappēs pappet pappēmus pappētis pappent
imperfect pappārem pappārēs pappāret pappārēmus pappārētis pappārent
perfect pappāverim pappāverīs pappāverit pappāverīmus pappāverītis pappāverint
pluperfect pappāvissem pappāvissēs pappāvisset pappāvissēmus pappāvissētis pappāvissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pappā pappāte
future pappātō pappātō pappātōte pappantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives pappāre pappāvisse
participles pappāns
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
pappandī pappandō pappandum pappandō

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: papar
  • Galician: papar
  • Italian: pappare
  • Old French: paper
  • Portuguese: papar
  • Romanian: păpa
  • Sardinian: papai
  • Sicilian: papa- (prefix used in compound names, followed by a type of food)
  • Spanish: papar

References

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  • pappo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pappo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pappo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. ^ Johnson, Edwin Lee (1931): Latin words of common English, p. 73
  2. ^ pappo”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.