papaver
See also: Papaver
English
editEtymology
editFrom the genus name, from Latin papāver. Doublet of poppy.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpapaver (plural papavers)
Derived terms
editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpapaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)
- papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver
- several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy
- Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin pavot. Doublet of pavot.
Noun
editpapaver m (plural papavers)
Further reading
edit- “papaver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnknown.
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
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /paˈpaː.u̯er/, [päˈpäːu̯ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈpa.ver/, [päˈpäːver]
Noun
editpapāver n (genitive papāveris); third declension
- 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.)
- “[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.”
- “[...] “Hesperidum templī cūstōs, epulāsque dracōnī
- 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.
- Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35
Usage notes
editAnteclassically, papāver was masculine.
Declension
editThird-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
editDescendants
edit- → Arabic: حَبَّبَوْر (ḥabbabawr)
- French: pavot
- Italian: papavero
- Sicilian: papàviru
- Translingual: Papaver, Camptoptera papaveris
References
edit- “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.
- ^ Manaster Ramer, Alexis. 2010. A simply perfect bear of an etymology, or two, or even more. Unpublished.
- ^ Lewis & Short
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