παπᾶς

See also: παπάς, and πάπας

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /paˈpas/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈpas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈpas/

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]

• singular genitive & vocative παπά (papá) / παπᾶ (papâ)
• singular accusative παπάν (papán) / παπᾶν (papân)
• plural nominative & vocative: παπάδες (papádes)
• plural genitive: παπάδων (papádōn), dialectal: παπάδω (papádō), rare: παπαδῶν (papadôn)
• plural accusative: παπάδας (papádas), post 14th century: παπάδες (papádes)

Related terms

• ἀπόπαπας m (apópapas, “bad priest”)
• βούπαπας m (boúpapas, “fat priest”)
• καλογερόπαπας m (kalogerópapas, “monk priest”)
• παπα- (papa-) (before male names)
• παπαδία f (papadía)
• παπαδιά f (papadiá)
• παπαδικός (papadikós, adjective)
• παπάδιον (papádion)
• παπαδίτζης (papadítzēs)
• παπαδοπούλα f (papadopoúla, “daughter of priest”)
• παπαδόπουλον (papadópoulon)
• παπακυρ- (papakur-, “priest Mr”) (before male names)
• παππαδιά (pappadiá)

 

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. 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.