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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.ós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈos/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ὁ πῡός ho pūós |
τὼ πῡώ tṑ pūṓ |
οἱ πῡοί hoi pūoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πῡοῦ toû pūoû |
τοῖν πῡοῖν toîn pūoîn |
τῶν πῡῶν tôn pūôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πῡῷ tôi pūôi |
τοῖν πῡοῖν toîn pūoîn |
τοῖς πῡοῖς toîs pūoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πῡόν tòn pūón |
τὼ πῡώ tṑ pūṓ |
τοὺς πῡούς toùs pūoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῡέ pūé |
πῡώ pūṓ |
πῡοί pūoí | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms
- πυετῐ́ᾱ (puetíā)
Further reading
- “πυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυός 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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.