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καῦσος

kausos1

4) Καῦσος m

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1. Καῦσος · Kausos — Chantraine

4) Καῦσος m. «fièvre endémique » (Hp., Arist., etc.), suffixe expressif -ooc plutôt que dérivation de l’aoriste καῦσαι ; voir pour le sens Stromberg, Worisiudien 87 sq. ; un doublet neutre καῦσος, τοὺς est tardivement attesté ; καύσων m. «chaleur brûlante» {Diph. Siphn. ap. Ath. 73 a, LXX, NT) en outre, dans certains emplois médicaux ; pour le suffixe, cf. σείσων, γράσων, etc.; enfin, καυσία chapeau contre le soleil … — [Chantraine, s.v. Καῦσος, p. 495]

2. καῦσος · kausos — LSJ

causus, bilious remittent fever, heartburn, fever, heat

causus, i.e. bilious remittent fever (the endemic fever of the Levant), Hp. VM 17 (pl.), Aph. 3.21 (pl.), Arist. Pr. 861b34, 862a2; πυρέττειν καύσῳ Id. Metaph. 981a12; κ. στομάχου heartburn, Dsc. 1.43, al.: generally, fever, heat, Nic. Th. 338.

II

in pl., lands fertilized by burning brushwood, etc., Ath.Med. ap. Orib. 1.2.4.

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  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. καῦσος (scan p. 495; entry #3518).

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