Translingual

Papaver alpinum

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Papaver n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Papaveraceae – the poppies.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Ranunculales - order; Papaveraceae - family; Papaveroideae - subfamily; Papavereae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Papaver sect. Argemonidium, Papaver sect. Carinatae, Papaver sect. Californicum, Papaver sect. Horrida, Papaver sect. Macrantha, Papaver sect. Meconidium, Papaver sect. Meconella, Papaver sect. Papaver, Papaver sect. Pilosa, Papaver sect. Rhoeadium - sections
  • Papaver somniferum - type species; Papaver alboroseum, Papaver alpinum, Papaver argemone, Papaver atlanticum, Papaver bivalve, Papaver bracteatum, Papaver californicum, Papaver chakassicum, Papaver commutatum, Papaver croceum, Papaver dahlianum, Papaver decaisnei, Papaver degenii, Papaver dubium, Papaver fugax, Papaver glaucum, Papaver gorgoneum, Papaver gorodkovii, Papaver gracile, Papaver heterophyllum, Papaver hybridum, Papaver kluanense, Papaver lapponicum, Papaver macounii, Papaver mcconnellii, Papaver nudicaule, Papaver orientale, Papaver pavoninum, Papaver pilosum, Papaver pseudo-orientale, Papaver pygmaeum, Papaver radicatum, Papaver refractum, Papaver rhoeas, Papaver rupifragum, Papaver schinzeanum, Papaver sendtneri, Papaver setigerum, Papaver umbonatum, Papaver walpolei - species

papaver

References

1. ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
2. ↑ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

English

Wikispecies

Cor papavera florent

Noun

papaver ‎(plural papavers)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, the poppies.

Derived terms

• papaverous

Latin

Etymology

A reduplicated form of the imitative root *pap ‎(“to swell”).

Some have tried to link it to pāscō ‎(“to feed”).^[1].

Alternative forms

• papauer

Noun

papāver n

1. poppy
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 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
   • 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.

3. accusative singular of papāver
4. vocative singular of papāver

Usage notes

Anteclassically, papāver was masculine.

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Synonyms

• rhoeas

Derived terms

• papāverātus
• papāverculum
• papāvereus

Descendants

• Italian: papavero
• Spanish: amapola
• Translingual: Papaver

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “papaver”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry%3Dpapaver