

(7) The ancient Egyptians either engraved the hieroglyphs in the stonework of their temples or painted them on the walls of the burial chamber or inscribed them with a reed pen on rolls of papyrus, the antecedent of our paper. (6) Some farmers cleared papyrus from the lower wetlands to cultivate rice, not realising that by releasing an oil on the water's surface, the papyrus had acted as a barrier against certain mosquitoes.


(5) Around 3000 B.C., the Egyptians developed a writing material using papyrus, the plant for which paper is named. (4) The dates are calculated from ancient lists, especially the Turin royal papyrus, and from various other sources. (2) a papyrus scroll (3) The documents of the early medieval period in Italy take the following shape: no more than about fifty documents survive from the sixth and seventh centuries, nearly all on papyrus, and nearly all from Ravenna. P.(1) His first design was created in a low bowl with fatsia leaves, Scots pine, oak leaves, strelitzia leaves and papyrus, then three large alliums and Singapore orchids were placed with skeletonised tenax leaves and some moss. papyrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D.Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press → Middle English: paper, papere, papir, papure, papyr, papyre, pauper, paupir.Catalan: paper, → Catalan: papir ( learned ).“ papyrus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé, 2012.Possessive forms of papyrus (type vastaus)īorrowed from Latin papȳrus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek πάπυρος ( pápuros ). Wikipedia nlīorrowed from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος ( pápuros ), ultimately from Semitic.ĭeclension Inflection of papyrus ( Kotus type 39/ vastaus, no gradation) papyrus (schrift) on the Dutch Wikipedia.The paper-like material made from the papyrus plant.The papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus Synonyms: papyrusriet, papyrusplant.Papyrus m ( plural papyri or papyrussen, diminutive papyrusje n) Unadapted borrowing from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος ( pápuros ). German: Papyrus (de) m, Echter Papyrus m, Papyrusstaude f.
