πυρετοῦ (pyretou)

πυρετοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of πυρετός, meaning “fever”.

It can also be a form of πυρετέω, “have a fever”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive imperative.

It can also be a form of Πυρετός, “Pyretos — called by the Scythians *po/rata, described by Herodotus as a large river of Scythia, flowing…”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.7.49: … νι ἱερῶν γραμμάτων. Περὶ τῶν ἐν Μερόῃ. Ὠκεανοῦ περίπλους. Περὶ ἱστορίης. Χαλδαϊκὸς λόγος. Φρύγιος λόγος. Περὶ πυρετοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ νόσου βησσόντων. Νομικὰ αἴτια. Χειρόκμητα [ἢ] προβλήματα. Τὰ δʼ ἄλλα ὅσα τινὲς ἀναφέρουσιν εἰς αὐ …

Epictetus, Discourses 1.19.6: τίς σοι θέλει ὅμοιος γενέσθαι, τίς σου ζηλωτὴς γίνεται ὡς Σωκράτους; ἀλλὰ δύναμαί σε τραχηλοκοπῆσαι. καλῶς λέγεις. ἐξελαθόμην ὅτι σε δεῖ θεραπεύειν καὶ ὡς πυρετὸν καὶ ὡς χολέραν καὶ βωμὸν στῆσαι, ὡς ἐν Ῥώμῃ Πυρετοῦ βωμός ἐστιν.

All forms of πυρετός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.