πυρετός

See also: Πυρετός

Ancient Greek

From the root of πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

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

Second declension of ὁ πῠρετός; τοῦ πῠρετοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠρετός ho pŭretós	τὼ πῠρετώ tṑ pŭretṓ	οἱ πῠρετοί hoi pŭretoí
Genitive	τοῦ πῠρετοῦ toû pŭretoû	τοῖν πῠρετοῖν toîn pŭretoîn	τῶν πῠρετῶν tôn pŭretôn
Dative	τῷ πῠρετῷ tōî pŭretōî	τοῖν πῠρετοῖν toîn pŭretoîn	τοῖς πῠρετοῖς toîs pŭretoîs
Accusative	τὸν πῠρετόν tòn pŭretón	τὼ πῠρετώ tṑ pŭretṓ	τοὺς πῠρετούς toùs pŭretoús
Vocative	πῠρετέ pŭreté	πῠρετώ pŭretṓ	πῠρετοί pŭretoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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“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.

From Ancient Greek πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).

πυρετός • (pyretós) m (plural πυρετοί)

fever, pyrexia
κίτρινος πυρετός ― kítrinos pyretós ― yellow fever
(figuratively) frenzy, fever
απεργιακός πυρετός ― apergiakós pyretós ― strike fever