papaver

From the genus name, from Latin.

papaver (plural papavers)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, the poppies.

• papaverous

From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaːˈpaː.vər/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ver
• Rhymes: -aːvər

papaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)

1. papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver

   Synonyms: heul, klaproos, maankop

2. several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy.

   Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid

• klaproos
• slaapbol
• slaapkruid

• bolpapaver
• opiumpapaver
• papaverveld

• papauer

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”).

papāver n (genitive papāveris); third declension

1. poppy
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 1.54:

     Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.

     It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.

2. seed
   • 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.

3. accusative singular of papāver
4. vocative singular of papāver

Anteclassically, papāver was masculine.

Third declension neuter.

• rhoeas

• papāverātus
• papāverculum
• papāvereus

• Italian: papavero
• Spanish: amapola, ababol, ababa
• Translingual: Papaver

• 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