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πάπυρος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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πᾰ́πῡρος (pắpūrosm or f (genitive πᾰπῡ́ρου); second declension

  1. the plant papyrus
  2. paper

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Latin: papȳrus (see there for further descendants)

References

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  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

Further reading

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