How do you say grandfather in Greek? Are there more and less formal versions?

Ancient Greek páppos. Modern Greek papús.

Fifty years ago, people would have still been trying to make  páppos the formal version. Now papús is universal. It covers the space from “grandfather” to “grampa”.

Diminutive papúlis is fairly limited, to cutesy child talk: “gramps”, I guess.

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