πύον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῠ́ος (pŭ́os)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pý.on/ → /ˈpy.on/ → /ˈpi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pý.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.on/

Noun

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

1. pus, discharge from a sore

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πῠ́ον; τοῦ πῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πῠ́ον tò pŭ́on	τὼ πῠ́ω tṑ pŭ́ō	τᾰ̀ πῠ́ᾰ tằ pŭ́ă
Genitive	τοῦ πῠ́ου toû pŭ́ou	τοῖν πῠ́οιν toîn pŭ́oin	τῶν πῠ́ων tôn pŭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ πῠ́ῳ tôi pŭ́ōi	τοῖν πῠ́οιν toîn pŭ́oin	τοῖς πῠ́οις toîs pŭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ πῠ́ον tò pŭ́on	τὼ πῠ́ω tṑ pŭ́ō	τᾰ̀ πῠ́ᾰ tằ pŭ́ă
Vocative	πῠ́ον pŭ́on	πῠ́ω pŭ́ō	πῠ́ᾰ pŭ́ă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἔμπῠος (émpŭos)
• πῠοειδής (pŭoeidḗs)
• πῠοποιός (pŭopoiós)
• πῠορροέω (pŭorrhoéō)
• πῠουλκός (pŭoulkós)
• πῠόω (pŭóō)
• σᾰρκόπῠον (sărkópŭon)

Descendants

• Greek: πύον (pýon)
• English: pyo-

Further reading

• “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

Greek

Alternative forms

• πύο (pýo)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

Further reading

• πύον on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el