πάπυρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown.
Perhaps from Egyptian, since writing on it is widely believed to be original with the Egyptians.
Beekes notes that 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
- παπύρινος (papúrinos)
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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