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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pý.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpy.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpy.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpy.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.on/
Noun
πῠ́ον • (púon) n (genitive πῠ́ου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
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.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
πύον • (pýon) n
- (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)
References
- ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1960–1972) “πύθομαι”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter
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