πυρετός

From the root of πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

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

1. heat
2. fever

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fever idem, page 317.

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

• IPA^(key): [piɾɛˈtɔs]
• Hyphenation: πυ‧ρε‧τός

πυρετός • (pyretós) m (plural πυρετοί)

1. fever, pyrexia

   κίτρινος πυρετός ― kítrinos pyretós ― yellow fever

2. (figuratively) frenzy, fever

   απεργιακός πυρετός ― apergiakós pyretós ― strike fever

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

• πυρεξία f (pyrexía, “pyrexia”)
• υπερπυρεξία f (yperpyrexía, “hyperpyrexia”)
• εμπύρετος (empýretos, “feverish, febrile, pyretic”)
• πυρετικός (pyretikós, “feverish, febrile, pyretic”)
• πυρετώδης (pyretódis, “feverish, febrile, hectic”)

• πυρετός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el