πύον

• πῠ́ος (pŭ́os)

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”).

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

1. pus, discharge from a sore

• Greek: πύον (pýon)
• English: pyo-

• “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

• πύο (pýo)

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]

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

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.

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

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

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