different between papaver vs palaver

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name, from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??pe?v?(?)/

Noun

papaver (plural papavers)

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

Derived terms

• papaverous

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin pap?ver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa??pa?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: pa?pa?ver
• Rhymes: -a?v?r

Noun

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

Derived terms

Latin

Alternative forms

• papauer

Etymology

Manaster Ramer sees here a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh?wr? (“fire”).

Some have tried to link it to p?sc? (“to feed”), or to an imitative root *pap (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?pa?.u?er/, [pä?pä?u??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /pa?pa?.?er/, [pa?pa??er]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa?pa.ver/, [p??p??v?r]

Noun

pap?ver n (genitive pap?veris); third declension

1. poppy

   Synonym: rhoeas

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.

3. accusative/vocative singular of pap?ver

Usage notes

Anteclassically, pap?ver was masculine.

Declension

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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

English

Etymology

Originally nautical slang, from Portuguese palavra (“word”), from Late Latin parabola (“parable, speech”). The term's use (especially in Africa) mimics the evolution of the word moot. As such, for sense development, see moot. Doublet of parable, parole, and parabola.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??l??.v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??v?(r)

Noun

palaver (countable and uncountable, plural palavers)

1. (Africa) A village council meeting.
2. Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:

     Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband’s knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour—foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.

   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.

     These remarks were received with a differing demonstration: some of the company declaring that if the Dutchman cared to come round and smoke a pipe they would be glad to see him—perhaps he'd show where the thumbscrews had been put on; others being strongly of the opinion that they didn't want any more advice—they had already had advice enough to turn a donkey's stomach. What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.

   • 1899, Stephen Crane, Active Service:

     Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair.

   • 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, p 229:

     Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.

3. Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
4. Fuss.

   What a palaver!

5. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

     this country and epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers

6. (informal) Disagreement.

   I have no palaver with him.

Synonyms

• (unnecessary talk): hot air, janglery; See also Thesaurus:chatter
• (fuss): ado, bother; See also Thesaurus:commotion

Descendants

• ? Danish: palaver
• ? Finnish: palaveri
• ? German: Palaver
• ? Hungarian: paláver

Translations

Verb

palaver (third-person singular simple present palavers, present participle palavering, simple past and past participle palavered)

1. (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.

   Synonyms: jabber, rabbit, yak; see also Thesaurus:prattle

   • 1860, Atlantic Monthly, vol. 5, no. 30 (April),

     “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”

2. (transitive) To flatter.

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Palaver”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 390, column 1.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English palaver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palav?r/, [p?a?l?w??], [p?a?læ?w?]

Noun

palaver c (singular definite palaveren, plural indefinite palavere)

1. palaver

Inflection