A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Paper, material manufactured, usually from a pulp of fibrous material, in thin sheets, usually for writing, drawing, printing on or as wrapping material, including wrapping doses of medicinal powders (after Dictionary, on line, Sept. 2018); such surfaces manufactured from the membranes (skins) of animals: charta,-ae (s.f.I), "a leaf of the Egyptian papyrus; paper;” papyrus,-i (m. and f.), q.v., also papyrum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. papyro, ‘paper;’ paper made from the stalk of the papyrus, or paper-reed, Cyperus papyrus L.; cf. Gk. chartEs,-ou (s.m.III), “papyrus, a roll of papyrus; any leaf or thin plate” as of metal(Liddell & Scott)]; see charta,-ae (s.f.I); see papyrus,-i (s.m.II).

NOTE: there were two basic forms of writing-surface used in ancient times:

1. papyrus (from the pith of the papyrus sedge, Cyperus papyrus. Papyrus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. papyro, a papyrus, can also refer to a text written on sheets of papyrus, joined together at the edges and rolled into a scroll; see papyrus,-i (s.m.II).

2. parchment, q.v.: “a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins [i.e. membranes] of animals — primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia” (Wikipedia Aug 2018).

- Macrosporium chartarum, Pk., a fungus species that grows on wall-paper.

- charta,-ae (s.f.I) bibula: blotting paper.

- sarcotesta tenui chartae simili, with the sarcotesta thin like paper.

Liber, gen.sg. libri (s.m.II), q.v., abl.sg. libro: inner bark of a tree; “Liber is that part of the bark (cortex) which lies next to the wood. This gives the name to the books in which we write” (Fuchs in Choate); the ancients used the bark or rind of trees to write upon; usually the thin rind of the Egyptian papyrus, on which the books of the Greeks and Romans were usually written” (Lewis & Short).

Molendinum,-i (s.n.II) papyraceum (adj.A), abl.sg. molendino papyraceo: a paper-mill;

- [Mnium crudum; moss] Locus. uda montosa saxosa amat: molendinum papyraceum circa Chemnitium in Saxonia, haud infrequens mihi obviam fuit (Hedw.), Location. it loves wet, mounainous, stoney places: a paper mill around Chemnitz in Saxony, was encountered by me, hardly infrequent [i.e. common].

Betula papyrifera Marsh., Paper Birch, ‘paper-bearing.’

Sheet of paper: scheda,-ae (s.f.I), q.v., abl. sg. scheda, sheet of paper, hence ‘label,’ also called 'ticket' primarily for the especially published labels in booklets that accompany taxonomic collections of specimens (exsiccatae) [> L. scheda,-ae (s.f.I) 'a strip of papyrus back; a leaf of paper'].

paper-bearing, papyriferous: see papyrifer,-fera,-ferum (adj.A).