πυός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably originally identical with πύον (púon, pus), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (rotten, foul), but with gender and accent after ὀρός (orós, whey) and τυρός (turós, cheese), which belong to the same semantic field. Both the substance and its properties (like smell and fermentation) may have caused the transference of meaning from "pus" to "milk".

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πῡός • (pūós) m (genitive πῡοῦ); second declension

  1. beestings, colostrum

Inflection

Derived terms

  • πυετῐ́ᾱ (puetíā)

Further reading

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