Papyrus, papyri, pen. prod. fœminino genere: vel Papyrum, neutro. Plin. A great rushe in Egypt growing in fennes or marrise groundes, whereof the first paper was made. Now it is vsed for paper to write or print on.Pagina crescit multa papyro. Iuuenal.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
păprus, i, m. and f., and păp-rum, i, n., = pa/puros, the paper-reed, papyrus.I.Lit.: papyrum ergo nascitur in palustribus Aegypti, aut quiescentibus Nili aquis ... triangulis lateribus, decem non amplius cubitorum longitudine in gracilitatem fastigatum, Plin. 13, 11, 22, 71: in Euphrate, id. 13, 11, 22, 73. Ships were made of it, id. ib.; Luc. 4, 136: in vasis papyri super aquas, Vulg. Isa. 18, 2; and sails and cordage from its bark, Cels. 5, 28, 12; Col. 6, 6, 4; Pall. 3, 33; also shoes, Mart. Cap. 2, 115; Tert. Carm. ad Sen. 22; and wicks, Veg. Vet. 2, 57; the roots were used instead of wood, Plin. 13, 11, 22, 72; and likewise for funeral piles, Mart. 10, 97, 1.— II.Transf.A.A garment made from the bark of the papyrus: succinctus patriā papyro, Juv. 4, 24.—B.Paper made of papyrus-stalk (cf.: liber, charta), Juv. 7, 101; Cat. 35, 1; Mart. 3, 2, 4.
