A.“θερμὸς ἀϋτμή” h.Merc.110, Hes.Th.696): (θέρω):— hot, “θ. λοετρά” Il.14.6, cf. Od.8.249; “θ. λουτρά” Pi.O.12.19, S.Tr.634 (lyr.), Pl.Lg.761c, etc.; “δάκρυα” Od.19.362; of water, ib.388; of glowing wood, 9.388; “θ. καύματα” Hdt.3.104 (Sup.); ἦν ἄρα πυρὸς “ἕτερα -ότερα” Ar.Eq.382: freq. in Att., of hot meals or drinks, TeleclId.1.8,32, Pherecr.130.8, etc.; of blood, S.OC622,Aj.1411 (anap.); “-οτάταν αἱμάδα” Id.Ph.696; of fever, “θ. νόσοι” Pi.P.3.66; θ. σῶμα feverish, Th.2.49.
II. metaph., hot-headed, hasty, freq. of persons, A.Th.603, Eu.560 (lyr.), Ar.V.918, etc.; “θ. καὶ ἀνδρεῖος” Antipho 2.4.5; of actions, “πολλὰ καὶ θ. μοχθήσας” S.Tr.1046; “θ. ἔργον” Ar.Pl. 415; “δρᾶν τι νεανικὸν καὶ θ.” Amphis 33.10; “θ. ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις” S.Ant.88; “θ. πόθος” AP5.114 (Phld.); “φάρμακον” Alciphr.1.37 (Comp.): c. inf., “θερμότερος ἐπιχειρεῖν” Antipho 2.1.7: Sup., “ὦ θερμόταται γυναῖκες” Ar.Th.735.
2. still warm, fresh, “ἴχνη” AP9.371; “ἀτυχήματα” Plu.2.798f; θ. κακά, opp. ἕωλα, ib.517f; “γάμοι θ. καὶ ἴσως αὔριον” Philostr. VA4.25.
2. θ. (sc. ὕδωρ), τό, hot water, θερμῷ λοῦσθαι, βάπτειν, Ar.Nu.1044, Ec.216; “θερμῷ κεκραμένος οἶνος” Gal.11.56; also, hot drink, Arr.Epict.1.13.2.