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.

Pronunciation

 

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

• (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 • (pápūros) m or f (genitive πᾰπῡ́ρου); second declension

1. the plant papyrus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πᾰ́πῡρος; τοῦ πᾰπῡ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰ́πῡρος ho pápūros	τὼ πᾰπῡ́ρω tṑ papū́rō	οἱ πᾰ́πῡροι hoi pápūroi
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰπῡ́ρου toû papū́rou	τοῖν πᾰπῡ́ροιν toîn papū́roin	τῶν πᾰπῡ́ρων tôn papū́rōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰπῡ́ρῳ tôi papū́rōi	τοῖν πᾰπῡ́ροιν toîn papū́roin	τοῖς πᾰπῡ́ροις toîs papū́rois
Accusative	τὸν πᾰ́πῡρον tòn pápūron	τὼ πᾰπῡ́ρω tṑ papū́rō	τοὺς πᾰπῡ́ρους toùs papū́rous
Vocative	πᾰ́πῡρε pápūre	πᾰπῡ́ρω papū́rō	πᾰ́πῡροι pápūroi
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)

Further reading

• “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