πυρετός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /py.re.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /py.reˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /py.reˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /py.reˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi.reˈtos/
Noun
πυρετός • (puretós) m (genitive πυρετοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πῠρετός ho puretós |
τὼ πῠρετώ tṑ puretṓ |
οἱ πῠρετοί hoi puretoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πῠρετοῦ toû puretoû |
τοῖν πῠρετοῖν toîn puretoîn |
τῶν πῠρετῶν tôn puretôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πῠρετῷ tôi puretôi |
τοῖν πῠρετοῖν toîn puretoîn |
τοῖς πῠρετοῖς toîs puretoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πῠρετόν tòn puretón |
τὼ πῠρετώ tṑ puretṓ |
τοὺς πῠρετούς toùs puretoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πῠρετέ pureté |
πῠρετώ puretṓ |
πῠρετοί puretoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πυρετικός (puretikós)
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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
Noun
πυρετός • (pyretós) m (plural πυρετοί)
- fever, pyrexia
- κίτρινος πυρετός ― kítrinos pyretós ― yellow fever
- (figuratively) frenzy, fever
- απεργιακός πυρετός ― apergiakós pyretós ― strike fever
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | πυρετός (pyretós) | πυρετοί (pyretoí) |
| genitive | πυρετού (pyretoú) | πυρετών (pyretón) |
| accusative | πυρετό (pyretó) | πυρετούς (pyretoús) |
| vocative | πυρετέ (pyreté) | πυρετοί (pyretoí) |
Coordinate terms
- υπερθερμία f (yperthermía, “hyperthermia”)
- θερμοπληξία f (thermoplixía, “heat stroke”)
Derived terms
- απυρεξία f (apyrexía, “apyrexia”)
- απύρετος (apýretos, “apyretic, feverless”, adjective)
- εμπύρετος (empýretos, “feverish, febrile, pyretic”)
- πυρεξία f (pyrexía, “pyrexia”)
- πυρετικός (pyretikós, “feverish, febrile, pyretic”)
- πυρετώδης (pyretódis, “feverish, febrile, hectic”)
- υπερπυρεξία f (yperpyrexía, “hyperpyrexia”)
Further reading
πυρετός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- πυρετός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
