papaver

See also: Papaver

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Etymology

From the genus name, from Latin papāver. Doublet of poppy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpeɪvə(ɹ)/

Noun

papaver (plural papavers)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, poppies.

Derived terms

• papaverous

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaːˈpaː.vər/

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

Noun

papaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)

1. papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver

   Synonyms: heul, klaproos, maankop

   Hyponyms: klaproos, slaapbol, slaapkruid

2. several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy

   Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid

Derived terms

• bolpapaver
• opiumpapaver
• papaverveld

 

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pavot. Doublet of pavot.

Noun

papaver m (plural papavers)

1. papaver

Further reading

• “papaver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Alternative forms

• papāuer

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈpaː.u̯er/, [päˈpäːu̯ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈpa.ver/, [päˈpäːver]

Noun

papāver n (genitive papāveris); third declension

1. poppy

   Synonym: rhoeas

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.484–486:

     “[...] “Hesperidum templī cūstōs, epulāsque dracōnī
     quae dabat, et sacrōs servābat in arbore rāmōs,
     spargēns ūmida mella sopōriferumque papāver.”

     “[The priestess was once a] guardian of the Hesperides’ temple [garden], and was keeping safe the sacred branches on the tree [that grew golden apples]: she used to give food to a dragon, sprinkling dewy honey and the sleep-inducing poppy.”
     (In other words, drugging its sweet food made the guard-dragon docile. See: hyperbaton.)

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 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
   • (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).

	singular	plural
nominative	papāver	papāvera
genitive	papāveris	papāverum
dative	papāverī	papāveribus
accusative	papāver	papāvera
ablative	papāvere	papāveribus
vocative	papāver	papāvera

Derived terms

• papāverātus
• papāverculum
• papāvereus

 

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.

1. Manaster Ramer, Alexis. 2010. A simply perfect bear of an etymology, or two, or even more. Unpublished.
2. Lewis & Short