παπᾶς
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paˈpas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paˈpas/
Noun
παπᾶς • (papâs) m (genitive παπᾶ); ? declension plural: παπάδες (papádes)
- (Byzantine, Christianity) accent perispomene[1] for παπάς (papás):[2] father (priest)
Declension
Inflectional forms:[2]
- singular genitive & vocative παπά (papá) / παπᾶ (papâ)
- singular accusative παπάν (papán) / παπᾶν (papân)
- plural nominative & vocative: παπάδες (papádes)
- plural genitive: παπάδων (papádōn), dialectal: παπάδω (papádō), rare: παπαδῶν (papadôn)
- plural accusative: παπάδας (papádas), post 14th century: παπάδες (papádes)
Related terms
- ἀπόπαπας m (apópapas, “bad priest”)
- βούπαπας m (boúpapas, “fat priest”)
- καλογερόπαπας m (kalogerópapas, “monk priest”)
- παπα- (papa-) (before male names)
- παπαδία f (papadía)
- παπαδιά f (papadiá)
- παπαδικός (papadikós, adjective)
- παπάδιον (papádion)
- παπαδίτζης (papadítzēs)
- παπαδοπούλα f (papadopoúla, “daughter of priest”)
- παπαδόπουλον (papadópoulon)
- παπακυρ- (papakur-, “priest Mr”) (before male names)
- παππαδιά (pappadiá)
and see πάπας m (pápas, “the pope”)
Descendants
- Greek: παπάς (papás)
- → Old Church Slavonic: попъ (popŭ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰 (papa) (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: pāpa (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “παπᾶς”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 839
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. (2019) by David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou & Notis Toufexis. Cambridge University Press. 4 vols. DOI - intro, §2.2. Masculine nouns in /as/, clitic paradigm παπάς/παπᾶς: page 306.