# papaver
## English

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### Etymology

From the genus name, from Latin papāver. Doublet of poppy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pəˈpeɪvə(ɹ)/

### Noun

papaver (plural papavers)
* Any plant of the genus Papaver, poppies.

#### Derived terms

* papaverous

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpaːˈpaː.vər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ver
* Rhymes: -aːvər

### Noun

papaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)
* papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver
    Synonyms: heul, klaproos, maankop
    Hyponyms: klaproos, slaapbol, slaapkruid
* several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy
    Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid

#### Derived terms

* bolpapaver
* opiumpapaver
* papaverveld

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pavot. Doublet of pavot.

### Noun

papaver m (plural papavers)
* papaver

### Further reading

* “papaver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology

Unknown.
Manaster Ramer sees here a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”).
Some have tried to link it to pāscō (“to feed”), or to an imitative root *pap (“to swell”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /paˈpaː.u̯er/, [päˈpäːu̯ɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /paˈpa.ver/, [päˈpäːver]

### Noun

papāver n or m (genitive papāveris); third declension
* poppy
    Synonym: rhoeas
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.484–486:“[...] “Hesperidum templī cūstōs, epulāsque dracōnī quae dabat, et sacrōs servābat in arbore rāmōs, spargēns ūmida mella sopōriferumque papāver.”“[The priestess was once a] guardian of the Hesperides’ temple [garden], and was keeping safe the sacred branches on the tree [that grew golden apples]: she used to give food to a dragon, sprinkling dewy honey and the sleep-inducing poppy.” (In other words, drugging its sweet food made the guard-dragon docile. See: hyperbaton.)
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.54:Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.
* seed
** (Can we date this quote?), Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35
    De papavere ficus gratissimae et suavissimae ventosa et vana caprificus exsurgitFrom the seed of the most delicious and grateful fig branches out the useless and deceptive wild fig.

#### Usage notes

* Masculine in Old Latin.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem or non-neuter).

#### Derived terms

* papāverātus
* papāverculum
* papāvereus

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: حَبَّبَوْر (ḥabbabawr)
** → Aragonese: ababol, babol, farabol
** → Catalan: ababol, babol
** → Galician: papoula, mapoula, mapola, marapola
** → Portuguese: papoula, papoila
** → Spanish: ababol, babahol, amapola, mapola, papola, ababa
* French: pavot
* Italian: papavero
* Sicilian: papàviru
* Translingual: Papaver, Camptoptera papaveris

#### References

* “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* papaver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ Manaster Ramer, Alexis. 2010. A simply perfect bear of an etymology, or two, or even more. Unpublished.
* ↑ Lewis & Short