εως (ἡ) :
   I cuisson, particul. :
      1 cuisson des aliments, ARSTT. Meteor. 4, 38, etc. ;
      2 maturation d’un fruit, ARSTT. Meteor. 4, 3, 1, etc. ;
      3 fermentation du vin, PLUT. M. 656 a ;
      4 cuisson ou maturation des humeurs, HPC. V. med. 15 ;
      5 p. suite, sécrétion des liquides ou humeurs, ARSTT. G.A. 1, 12, 2, etc. ;
      6 maturation ou guérison d’une blessure, PLUT. M. 102 a ;
   II digestion, ARSTT. Meteor. 4, 3, 21, etc.

Étym. πέσσω.

εως, Ion. ιος, ἡ, (< πέσσω) softening, ripening, or changing by means of heat (Arist. Mete. 379b18, GA 775a17, Pr. 907a18); of fruit, πέπανσίς ἐστι π. τις Id. Mete. 380a11, cf. Thphr. HP 1.12.2, 5.1.3 (pl.).
cooking of food, including both ἕψησις and ὄπτησις (cooking by water or by dry heat), Arist. Mete. 380b13, 381a23; κλίβανος καιόμενος εἰς π. LXX Ho. 7.4.
largess of cooked food, IGRom. 4.1637 (Philadelphia). of wine, fermentation, Plu. 2.656a.
Medic., digestion of food, ὁμοία ἑψήσει Arist. Mete. 381b7, cf. PA 650a4, al. ; τὰ τῆς π. ὄργανα Gal. Nat. Fac. 1.10; π. καὶ ἀνάδοσις Porph. Abst. 1.45; pl., Agatharch. 77.
ripening, ΄concoction΄ of acrid humours, Hp. VM 18, cf. Plu. 2.102a.
concoction, as a function of the animal organs, ἡ τοῦ σπέρματος π. Arist. GA 719b2; ἡ διάκρισις π. ἐστί ib. 775a17; of milk, ib. 776b35.

ἡ, das Kochen, Backen, τῶν καρπῶν, Reifen, Theophr.; bes. das Verdauen, die Verdauung, Tim.Locr. 101a, Hippocr. u. Sp. – Vom Weine, die Gährung, Plut. Symp. 3.7.1.

baking (MT)