Poppy
Old English popig, papæg, from a medieval Latin alteration of Latin papaver .
wiktionary
The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie(“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”)[and other forms], from Old English popiġ(“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, popei[and other forms], [1] perhaps from Late Latin *papavum, popauer, from Latin papāver(“poppy”), [2] possibly from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥(“bonfire”).
Sense 3 (“artificial poppy flower to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts”) reflects the efforts of American professor and humanitarian Moina Michael (1869–1944) to popularize the wearing of artificial poppies in remembrance of those who fought and died in World War I; she was inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915) by the Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872–1918): see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
From pop(“loud, sharp sound; fizzy drink; to make or burst with a loud, sharp sound; to stand out”) + -y( suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). [3]
From pop(ular) + -y( suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). [4]
From pop(“affectionate form of father”) + -y( suffix forming terms of endearment).
etymonline
poppy (n.)
plant of the genus papaver, having showy flowers and milky juice with narcotic properties, from late Old English popig, popæg, from West Germanic *papua-, probably from Vulgar Latin *papavum, from Latin papaver "poppy," perhaps a reduplicated form of imitative root *pap- "to swell."
Associated with battlefields and war dead at least since Waterloo (1815), an association cemented by John McCrae's World War I poem, they do not typically grow well in the soil of Flanders but were said to have been noticeably abundant on the mass graves of the fallen French after 1815, no doubt nourished by the nutriments below. Poppy-seed is from early 15c.; in 17c. it also was a small unit of length (less than one-twelfth of an inch).
