πάππας

See also: παππάς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πάπας (pápas) — Koine

Etymology

From child speech; compare Mama and papa at Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /páp.pas/ → /ˈpap.pas/ → /ˈpa.pas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /páp.pas/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpap.pas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpap.pas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpap.pas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pas/

Noun

πάππᾰς • (páppas) m (genitive πάππου); first declension

1. papa, daddy

Usage notes

Found chiefly in the vocative.

Declension

First declension of ὁ πάππᾰς; τοῦ πάππου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ πάππᾰς ho páppas
Genitive	τοῦ πάππου toû páppou
Dative	τῷ πάππᾳ tôi páppāi
Accusative	τὸν πάππᾰν tòn páppan
Vocative	πάππᾰ páppa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παππάζω (pappázō)
• παππασμός (pappasmós)
• παππίας (pappías)
• παππίδιον (pappídion)
• παππίζω (pappízō)

 

Related terms

• πάππος (páppos, “grandfather”)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: παπᾶς (papâs, “title for priests and bishops”)
  • Ecclesiastical Latin: pāpa (“pope”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Church Slavonic: попъ (popŭ, “priest”) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “πάππας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πάππας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πάππας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press