Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πέττω ‎(péttō) Attic
• πέπτω ‎(péptō) Attic

Verb

πέσσω • ‎(péssō)

1. I soften, ripen
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 780.b.10
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 944.a.13
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.119
2. I boil, cook, bake
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 505
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 869
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1136
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.160
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.37
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.137
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 372.b
3. I digest
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 718.b.21
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 762.a.15
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 381.b.12
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 677.b.31
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 11
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Eumenes 11
4. (figuratively) I brood
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.283
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.513
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.513
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.565
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.617
   • 340 BCE – 285 BCE, Philitas, Collected Works 1
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.186
   1. (of diseases)
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων 42

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Related terms

Synonyms

• λεπάζω ‎(lepázō)

References

• πέσσω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέσσω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέσσω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πέσσω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πέσσω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πέσσω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter