καῦμα, ατος, τό,
(καίω) burning heat, especially of the sun, καύματος ἔξ after sun-heat, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.865, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 415, 588, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 39, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 417, Epinic. 1.10, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρὶν ἂν τὸ κ. παρέλθῃ the heat of the day, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242a, compare “Ti.” 70d; ἐὰν ᾖ κ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 342b10: frequently in _plural_, ἡλίου τε καύμασιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 350, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.9, etc.; [τόποι] ὑπὸ καυμάτων διαφθειρόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.12; καύματα καὶ χειμῶνες 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, also of frost, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.98b, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 fever heat, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of inflamed conditions, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 19, “Aph.” 7.13: _metaphorically_, of love, κ. ἀρσενικόν “Anthologia Graeca” 12.87. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in plural, holes burnt by cautery, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 11, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 863a31. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III brand on cattle, [[ “IG” 7.3171.44 (Orchom. _Boeotian dialect_). ] Refs]