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pyretic (adj.)
1809, from French
pyrétique
or directly from Modern Latin
pyreticus
, from Greek
pyretos
"fever, burning heat," related to
pyr
"fire," from PIE root
*paəwr-
"fire" (see
fire
(n.)). As a noun, "a pyretic agent," from 1728.
