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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.re.tós/ → /py.reˈtos/ → /pi.reˈtos/
Noun
πυρετός • (puretós) m (genitive πυρετοῦ); second declension
- heat
- fever
Inflection
Derived terms
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.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: πυ‧ρε‧τός
Noun
πυρετός • (pyretós) m (plural πυρετοί)
- fever, pyrexia
- κίτρινος πυρετός ― kítrinos pyretós ― yellow fever
- (figuratively) frenzy, fever
- απεργιακός πυρετός ― apergiakós pyretós ― strike fever
Declension
Coordinate terms
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”)
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