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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps from Egyptian, since writing on it is widely believed to have originated in Egypt, but no Egyptian cognate is known. Beekes notes that the suffix *-ῡρ- is reconstructed for Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pá.pyː.ros/ → /ˈpa.py.ros/ → /ˈpa.pi.ros/
Noun
πᾰ́πῡρος • (pápūros) m or f (genitive πᾰπῡ́ρου); second declension
- the plant papyrus
Inflection
Derived terms
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