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papyroi

papyroi is the plural of papyros.

Meaning of papyros

Noun

papyros (countable and uncountable, plural papyroi)

  1. Synonym of papyrus.
    • The famous “Papyros Ebers,” which was written during the reign of the Egyptian king Bicheres, 3,500 years ago, was discovered by the celebrated archeologist, Georg Ebers in 1872, when an Arab brought him a metallic case containing a papyros roll enveloped in mummy cloths, which he claimed had been...1901, The Canada Medical Record, volume 29, page 192
    Synonyms:
    papyrus

Origin of papyroi

From Ancient Greek πᾰ́πῡροι (pắpūroi).

Questions about papyroi

What is papyroi the plural of?
Papyroi is the plural of papyros.

Words near papyroi in the dictionary

  1. papyrographers
  2. papyrographic
  3. papyrographing
  4. papyrographs
  5. papyrography
  6. papyroi
  7. papyrological
  8. papyrologically
  9. papyrologies
  10. papyrologist
  11. papyrologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papyroi (page history and authors); papyros (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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