πύον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῠ́ος (púos)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“rotten, foul”), the same root of πύθομαι (púthomai, “to putrify, decay”) and πῡός (pūós, “beestings, colostrum”). Other Indo-European cognates are Latin pūs (“pus”), Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul”), Sanskrit पुवस् (puvas, “purulent matter”) and Old Armenian փուտ (pʻut, “rottenness, putrefaction”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pý.on/ → /ˈpy.on/ → /ˈpi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pý.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.on/

Noun

πῠ́ον • (púon) n (genitive πῠ́ου); second declension

1. pus, discharge from a sore

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πῠ́ον; τοῦ πῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πῠ́ον tò púon	τὼ πῠ́ω tṑ púō	τᾰ̀ πῠ́ᾰ tà púa
Genitive	τοῦ πῠ́ου toû púou	τοῖν πῠ́οιν toîn púoin	τῶν πῠ́ων tôn púōn
Dative	τῷ πῠ́ῳ tôi púōi	τοῖν πῠ́οιν toîn púoin	τοῖς πῠ́οις toîs púois
Accusative	τὸ πῠ́ον tò púon	τὼ πῠ́ω tṑ púō	τᾰ̀ πῠ́ᾰ tà púa
Vocative	πῠ́ον púon	πῠ́ω púō	πῠ́ᾰ púa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἔμπῠος (émpuos)
• πῠοειδής (puoeidḗs)
• πῠοποιός (puopoiós)
• πῠορροέω (puorrhoéō)
• πῠουλκός (puoulkós)
• πῠόω (puóō)
• σᾰρκόπῠον (sarkópuon)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πύον (pýon)

Further reading

• “πύον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πύον 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

Greek

Alternative forms

• πύο (pýo)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πύον (púon), from Ancient Greek πύθω (púthō) / πύθομαι (púthomai, “to rot, to decompose”), from *puH-.

Cognate with Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Latin pus, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”) and Latin puteō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpion/
• Hyphenation: πύ‧ον

Noun

πύον • (pýon) n

1. (medicine) pus (substance composed of dead white blood cells and dead bacteria found in bacterial infections)

   Η πληγή του μάζευε πύον και έπρεπε να την τρυπήσει ο γιατρός.

   I pligí tou mázeve pýon kai éprepe na tin trypísei o giatrós.

   His wound was collecting pus and the doctor had to puncture it.

Derived terms

• πυοποίηση f (pyopoíisi, “formation of pus”)
• πυόρροια f (pyórroia, “pyorrhea”)
• πυορροώ (pyorroó, “to suppurate”)
• πυώδης (pyódis, “purulent”)

Related terms

• σπυρί n (spyrí, “pimple, pustule”)
• εξάνθημα n (exánthima, “rash, pustule”)
• καλόγερος m (kalógeros, “boil”) (colloquial)

Further reading

• πύον on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el