πυρετός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.re.tós/ → /py.reˈtos/ → /pi.reˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.re.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /py.reˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /py.reˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /py.reˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈtos/

Noun

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

1. heat
2. fever

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῠρετός; τοῦ πῠρετοῦ (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fever idem, page 317.

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Greek

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

Declension of πυρετός

	singular	plural
nominative	πυρετός •	πυρετοί •
genitive	πυρετού •	πυρετών •
accusative	πυρετό •	πυρετούς •
vocative	πυρετέ •	πυρετοί •

Coordinate terms

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

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”)

Further reading

• πυρετός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el