παπᾶς

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See also: παπάς and πάπας

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

Noun

παπᾶς • (papâs) m (genitive παπᾶ); ? declension plural: παπάδες (papádes)

  1. (Byzantine, Christianity) accent perispomene[1] for παπάς (papás):[2] father (priest)

Declension

Inflectional forms:[2]

and see πάπας m (pápas, “the pope”)

Descendants

  • Greek: παπάς (papás)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: попъ (popŭ) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰 (papa) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Latin: pāpa (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “παπᾶς”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 839
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. (2019) by David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou & Notis Toufexis. Cambridge University Press. 4 vols. DOI - intro, §2.2. Masculine nouns in /as/, clitic paradigm παπάς/παπᾶς: page 306.
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