πάππος

Reduplicated nursery word; compare πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

πᾰ́ππος • (pắppos) m (genitive πᾰ́ππου); second declension

1. grandfather (both maternal or paternal)
2. (in the plural) grandparents
3. (in general) ascendant, ancestor
4. pantaloon, a character in comic dramas
5. (botany) pappus, down on the seeds of certain plants
6. first down on the chin
7. small bird in whose nest the cuckoo lays

• Byzantine Greek:
  • Greek: πάππος (páppos)
  • Mariupol Greek: па́пус (pápus)
  • → Romani: pàpos
• → Latin: pappus
  • Aromanian: pap
  • → English: pappus
  • → Italian: pappo

• “πάππος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πάππος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πάππος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

• παππούς m (pappoús)
• παππούλης m (pappoúlis)

πάππος • (páppos) m (plural πάπποι)

1. grandfather

• γιαγιά f (giagiá, “grandmother”)