pappo

See also: pappò

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pappus from Ancient Greek πάππος (páppos), affectionate term for elderly men (referencing beards).

Noun

pappo m (plural pappi)

  1. (botany) pappus

Verb

pappo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pappare

Anagrams


Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly a nursery word of imitative origin[1][2], or from Proto-Indo-European *pa (eat, feed)) from which are derived pāscō, pastor, pābulum, pābulor.

Compare with English pap, Portuguese papar, Bulgarian папам, Serbo-Croatian папати/papati, German Pappe, Czech papat.

Pronunciation

Verb

pappō (present infinitive pappāre, perfect active pappāvī); first conjugation, no passive

  1. I eat, eat pap.
    liberto opus est quod pappet, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 62

Inflection

   Conjugation of pappo (first conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pappō pappās pappat pappāmus pappātis pappant
imperfect pappābam pappābās pappābat pappābāmus pappābātis pappābant
future pappābō pappābis pappābit pappābimus pappābitis pappābunt
perfect pappāvī pappāvistī pappāvit pappāvimus pappāvistis pappāvērunt, pappāvēre
pluperfect pappāveram pappāverās pappāverat pappāverāmus pappāverātis pappāverant
future perfect pappāverō pappāveris pappāverit pappāverimus pappāveritis pappāverint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pappem pappēs pappet pappēmus pappētis pappent
imperfect pappārem pappārēs pappāret pappārēmus pappārētis pappārent
perfect pappāverim pappāverīs pappāverit pappāverimus pappāveritis pappāverint
pluperfect pappāvissem pappāvissēs pappāvisset pappāvissēmus pappāvissētis pappāvissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pappā pappāte
future pappātō pappātō pappātōte pappantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives pappāre pappāvisse
participles pappāns
verbal nouns gerund supine
nominative genitive dative/ablative accusative accusative ablative
pappāre pappandī pappandō pappandum

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • pappo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pappo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • pappo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. Johnson, Edwin Lee (1931): Latin words of common English, p. 73
  2. pappo” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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