papaver

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

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpeɪvə(ɹ)/

papaver (plural papavers)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, poppies.

• papaverous

From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaːˈpaː.vər/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ver
• Rhymes: -aːvər

papaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)

1. papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver

   Synonyms: heul, klaproos, maankop

   Hyponyms: klaproos, slaapbol, slaapkruid

2. several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy

   Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid

Borrowed from Latin pavot. Doublet of pavot.

papaver m (plural papavers)

1. papaver

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

Unknown.

Manaster Ramer sees here a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”).^[1]

Some have tried to link it to pāscō (“to feed”),^[2] or to an imitative root *pap (“to swell”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈpaː.wɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈpaː.ver]

papāver n or m (genitive papāveris); third declension

1. 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.

2. seed
   • (Can we date this quote?), 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.

• Masculine in Old Latin.

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

• “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.