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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably originally identical with πύον (púon, “pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“rotten, foul”), but with gender and accent after ὀρός (orós, “whey”) and τυρός (turós, “cheese”), which belong to the same semantic field. Both the substance and its properties (like smell and fermentation) may have caused the transference of meaning from "pus" to "milk".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyː.ós/ → /pyˈos/ → /piˈos/
Noun
πῡός • (pūós) m (genitive πῡοῦ); second declension
- beestings, colostrum
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Further reading
- “πυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN