πῦρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ur. Cognates include Old Armenian հուր (hur), Hittite 𒉺𒀪𒄯 (paḫḫur), Tocharian A por, Tocharian B puwar, and Old English fȳr (English fire).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /pý͜yr/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /pyːr/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /pyr/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /pyr/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /piɾ/

Noun

πῦρ • (pur) (genitive πυρός) n, third declension

1. a fire
   1. a funerary fire
   2. a sacrificial fire
2. lightning
3. a fever

Inflection

    Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πῦρ	τὰ πυρά
Genitive	τοῦ πῠρός	τῶν πυρῶν
Dative	τῷ πῠρί	τοῖς πυροῖς
Accusative	τὸ πῦρ	τὰ πυρά
Vocative	πῦρ	πυρά

Related terms

• πυρά (pura)
• πυράζω (purazō)
• πυρακτέω (purakteō)

References

• BDAG
• πῦρ in A Greek–English Lexicon by Liddell & Scott, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940
• Robert S. P. Beekes (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers
• Strong’s concordance number: G4442