πάπυρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from Egyptian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pá.pyː.ros/ → /ˈpa.py.ros/ → /ˈpa.pi.ros/

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

Noun

πάπῡρος • (pápūros) m, f (genitive παπύρου, second declension)

1. the plant papyrus

References

• 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
• paper in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911