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

 

• IPA^(key): /pyː.ós/ → /pyˈos/ → /piˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pyː.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈos/

Noun

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

1. beestings, colostrum

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῡός; τοῦ πῡοῦ (Attic)

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:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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