Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pyretós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyretós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piɾetós/

Noun

πυρετός • ‎(puretós) m ‎(genitive πυρετοῦ); second declension

1. heat
2. fever

Inflection

References

• πυρετός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πυρετός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυρετός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πυρετός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πυρετός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4446”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fever idem, page 317.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πυρετός ‎(puretós, “fever”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [piɾɛˈtɔs]
• Hyphenation: πυ‧ρε‧τός

Noun

πυρετός • ‎(pyretós) m ‎(plural πυρετοί)

1. fever, pyrexia

   κίτρινος πυρετός‎ ― kítrinos pyretós ― yellow fever

2. (figuratively) frenzy, fever

   απεργιακός πυρετός‎ ― apergiakós pyretós ― strike fever

Declension

Derived terms

• πυρεξία f ‎(pyrexía, “pyrexia”)
• υπερπυρεξία f ‎(yperpyrexía, “hyperpyrexia”)
• εμπύρετος ‎(empýretos, “feverish, febrile, pyretic”)
• πυρετικός ‎(pyretikós, “feverish, febrile, pyretic”)
• πυρετώδης ‎(pyretódis, “feverish, febrile, hectic”)

Coordinate terms

• υπερθερμία f ‎(yperthermía, “hyperthermia”)
• θερμοπληξία f ‎(thermoplixía, “heat stroke”)

External links

• πυρετός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el