πάπυρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Egyptian, since writing on it is widely believed to have originated in Egypt, but no Egyptian cognate is known. Beekes notes that the suffix *-ῡρ- is reconstructed for Pre-Greek.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pá.pyː.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.py.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.py.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.py.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pi.ros/

Noun

πᾰ́πῡρος • (pắpūros) m or f (genitive πᾰπῡ́ρου); second declension

the plant papyrus
paper

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πᾰ́πῡρος; τοῦ πᾰπῡ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰ́πῡρος ho pắpūros	τὼ πᾰπῡ́ρω tṑ păpū́rō	οἱ πᾰ́πῡροι hoi pắpūroi
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰπῡ́ρου toû păpū́rou	τοῖν πᾰπῡ́ροιν toîn păpū́roin	τῶν πᾰπῡ́ρων tôn păpū́rōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰπῡ́ρῳ tōî păpū́rōi	τοῖν πᾰπῡ́ροιν toîn păpū́roin	τοῖς πᾰπῡ́ροις toîs păpū́rois
Accusative	τὸν πᾰ́πῡρον tòn pắpūron	τὼ πᾰπῡ́ρω tṑ păpū́rō	τοὺς πᾰπῡ́ρους toùs păpū́rous
Vocative	πᾰ́πῡρε pắpūre	πᾰπῡ́ρω păpū́rō	πᾰ́πῡροι pắpūroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

παπῡ́ρινος (papū́rinos)

Descendants

→ Latin: papȳrus (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πάπῡρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1151

“πάπυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πάπυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πάπυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πάπυρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
πάπυρος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πάπῡρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1151

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