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English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From the genus name, from Latin papāver . Doublet of poppy .
Pronunciation
Noun
papaver (plural papavers )
Any plant of the genus Papaver , poppies .
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch papaver , from Latin papāver .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˌpaːˈpaː.vər/
Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ver
Rhymes: -aːvər
Noun
papaver f (plural papavers , diminutive papavertje n )
papaver , poppy , plant of the genus Papaver
Synonyms: heul , klaproos , maankop
Hyponyms: klaproos , slaapbol , slaapkruid
several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy
Synonyms: heul , maankop , slaapbol , slaapkruid
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pavot . Doublet of pavot .
Noun
papaver m (plural papavers )
papaver
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
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
Noun
papāver n (genitive papāveris ) ; third declension
poppy
Synonym: rhoeas
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.
Usage notes
Anteclassically , papāver was masculine .
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Arabic: حَبَّبَوْر ( ḥabbabawr ) → Aragonese: ababol , babol , farabol → Catalan: ababol , babol → Galician: papoula , mapoula , mapola , marapola → Portuguese: papoula , papoila → Spanish: ababol , babahol , amapola , mapola , papola , ababa
French: pavot
Italian: papavero
Sicilian: papàviru
Translingual: Papaver , Camptoptera papaveris
References
“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 Unpublished.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