The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπυρετικός“febrile”
- New Latin · borrowed frompyreticus
- English todaypyretic
Borrowed from New Latin pyreticus, from Ancient Greek πυρετικός (puretikós, “febrile”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.