πάππας

See also: παππάς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From child speech; compare Mama and papa at Wikipedia.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πάππᾰς • (páppăs) 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 páppăs
Genitive τοῦ πάππου
toû páppou
Dative τῷ πάππᾳ
tōî páppāi
Accusative τὸν πάππᾰν
tòn páppăn
Vocative πάππᾰ
páppă
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)

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)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πάππᾰ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1150

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