θερμᾰσία, ἡ,
warmth, heat, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 5.63, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 860a19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.40U., 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.11.7. LXX.Jer.28(51).39, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.34, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.34.6 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; heating, opposed to ψῦξις, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 764b7: _plural_, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.128f. (The pure _Attic dialect_ words are θερμότης and θέρμη, Thom.Mag.p.179R., but θερμασία is used by 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.15.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]