papaver

See also Papaver

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Noun

papaver (plural papavers)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Papaver, the poppies.

Derived terms

• papaverous

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Latin

Etymology

A reduplicated form of the imitative root *pap "to swell."

Some have tried to link it to pasco 'to feed'.

Alternative forms

• papauer

Noun

papāver n

1. poppy
   • p. 27 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, liber I, 54

     Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.

     It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.

2. seed
   • 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.

3. accusative singular of papāver
4. vocative singular of papāver

Usage notes

Anteclassically, papāver was masculine.

Inflection

Third declension, neuter variation (3:N).

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	papāver	papāvera
genitive	papāveris	papāverum
dative	papāverī	papāveribus
accusative	papāver	papāvera
ablative	papāvere	papāveribus
vocative	papāver	papāvera

Derived terms

• papāverātus
• papāverculum
• papāvereus

Descendants

• Italian: papavero

References

• papaver in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879