pappo

See also: pappò

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpap.po/
• Rhymes: -appo
• Hyphenation: pàp‧po

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic. Compare pappa, pappare.

Noun

pappo m (plural pappi)

1. (childish) food

Further reading

• pappo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin pappus from Ancient Greek πάππος (páppos), affectionate term for elderly men (referencing beards).

Noun

pappo m (plural pappi)

1. (botany) pappus

Further reading

• pappo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pappo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pappare

Anagrams

• poppa

Latin

Alternative forms

• papō

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly a nursery word of imitative origin,^[1][2] or from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“eat, feed”)) from which are derived pāscō, pastor, pābulum, pābulor.

Compare with English pap, Portuguese papar, Bulgarian папам, Serbo-Croatian папати/papati, German Pappe, Czech papat.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpap.poː/, [ˈpäpːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpap.po/, [ˈpäpːo]

Verb

pappō (present infinitive pappāre, perfect active pappāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to eat, eat pap

   liberto opus est quod pappet, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 62

Conjugation

Conjugation of pappō (first conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	pappō	pappās	pappat	pappāmus	pappātis	pappant
	imperfect	pappābam	pappābās	pappābat	pappābāmus	pappābātis	pappābant
	future	pappābō	pappābis	pappābit	pappābimus	pappābitis	pappābunt
	perfect	pappāvī	pappāvistī	pappāvit	pappāvimus	pappāvistis	pappāvērunt, pappāvēre
	pluperfect	pappāveram	pappāverās	pappāverat	pappāverāmus	pappāverātis	pappāverant
	future perfect	pappāverō	pappāveris	pappāverit	pappāverimus	pappāveritis	pappāverint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	pappem	pappēs	pappet	pappēmus	pappētis	pappent
	imperfect	pappārem	pappārēs	pappāret	pappārēmus	pappārētis	pappārent
	perfect	pappāverim	pappāverīs	pappāverit	pappāverīmus	pappāverītis	pappāverint
	pluperfect	pappāvissem	pappāvissēs	pappāvisset	pappāvissēmus	pappāvissētis	pappāvissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	pappā	—	—	pappāte	—
	future	—	pappātō	pappātō	—	pappātōte	pappantō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		pappāre	pappāvisse	—	—	—	—
participles		pappāns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		pappandī	pappandō	pappandum	pappandō	—	—

Synonyms

• edō

Related terms

• pappa

Descendants

• Catalan: papar
• Galician: papar
• Italian: pappare
• Old French: paper
• Portuguese: papar
• Romanian: păpa
• Sardinian: papai
• Sicilian: papa- (prefix used in compound names, followed by a type of food)
• Spanish: papar

References

• “pappo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pappo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pappo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

1. Johnson, Edwin Lee (1931): Latin words of common English, p. 73
2. “pappo”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.