πύου (pyou)

πύου is an Ancient Greek form of πύον, meaning “discharge from a sore, matter”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of πυόω, “cause to suppurate”.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Hippocrates, Prognosticon 17: … ισι προσδέχεσθαι τὴν ῤῆξιν ἐς ὕστερον· γίγνεσθαι δὲ ἀνάγκη καὶ πόνον καὶ δύσπνοιαν καὶ πτυαλισμὸν πρὸ τῆς τοῦ πύου ῤήξιος. περιγίγνονται δὲ τουτέων μάλιστα μὲν οὕς ἂν ἀφῇ ὁ πυρετὸς αὐθημερὸν μετὰ τὴν ῤῆξιν, καὶ σιτίων ταχέως …

All forms of πύον (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.