φλέγω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
φλεμονή
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
phlegmonē
English translation (word)
inflammation
Transliteration (Etymon)
phlegō
English translation (etymon)
to burn
Century
2 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Gynaeciorum libri iv, 3.17.1
Ed.
J. Ilberg, Sorani Gynaeciorum libri iv, de signis fracturarum, de fasciis, vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum [Corpus medicorum Graecorum 4. Leipzig: Teubner, 1927]
Quotation
Ἡ φλεγμονὴ κέκληται μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ φλέγειν καὶ οὐχ ὡς ὁ Δημόκριτος εἴρηκεν ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴτιον εἶναι τὸ φλέγμα.
Translation (En)
Phlegmonē "inflammation" is so called from the verb phlegein "to burn", not, as Democritus says, from the fact that it is caused by the phlegm (phlegma).
Parallels
Ps.-Galen, Definitiones medicae, Kühn vol. 19, p. 41 (εἴρηται δὲ φλεγμονὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ οἷον φλέγεσθαι τὸν τόπον); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 420 (s.v. ἡδονή) (Ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἥδω, τὸ εὐφραίνομαι, ἡδονὴ, ὡς φλέγω, φλεγμονή· πλήθω, πλησμονή); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, eta, p. 976 (ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἥδω ἡδονή· ὡς φλέγω φλεγμονή· πλήθω πληγμονή)
Modern etymology
Derived from the same *-men- stem underlying φλέγμα, and ultimately from φλέγω
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has φλεγμονή as a technical medical word
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology relating the noun directly to the verb φλέγω.