πυρετός

πυρετός — pyretós

πυρετός, πυρετου, ὁ (πῦρ);

1. fiery heat (Homer, Iliad 22, 31 (but interpreters now give it the sense of 'fever' in this passage; cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word; Schmidt, Syn., chapter 60 § 14)).

2. fever: Mat 8:15; Marki. 31; Luk 4:39; Joh 4:52; Act 28:8, (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato, and following; Deu 28:22); πυρετῷ μεγάλῳ, Luk 4:38 (as Galen de diff. feb. 1, 1 says συνηθες τοῖς ἰατροῖς ὀνομάζειν... τόν μέγαν τέ καί μικρόν πυρετον; (cf. Wetstein on Luke, the passage cited)).