pyre

See also: pýre

English

Etymology

From Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.

Doublet of fire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪɚ/

• Audio (southern England)

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• Hyphenation: pyre
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Noun

pyre (plural pyres)

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
   • For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Related terms

• empyreal
• empyrean
• pyr-
• pyro-

 

• pyrée

Translations

funeral pile

• Bulgarian: клада (bg) f (klada)
• Catalan: pira (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火葬用的柴堆

• Czech: hranice (cs) f
• Danish: ild (da)
• Dutch: brandstapel (nl) m
• Estonian: tuleriit
• Finnish: hautarovio, rovio (fi)
• French: bûcher (fr) m
• German: Scheiterhaufen (de) m
• Greek: πυρά (el) f (pyrá)

  Ancient: πυρά f (purá)

• Hindi: चिता (hi) m (citā)
• Hungarian: máglya (hu)
• Irish: breocharn m
• Italian: pira (it) f, rogo (it)
• Latin: rogus m, pyra f
• Malayalam: ചിത (ml) (cita)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likbål n

• Old English: ād m
• Polish: stos pogrzebowy m
• Portuguese: pira (pt) f
• Romanian: rug (ro) n
• Russian: погреба́льный костёр m (pogrebálʹnyj kostjór)
• Serbo-Croatian: pogrebna lòmača f
• Slovak: hranica f
• Spanish: pira (es) f
• Swedish: eld (sv)
• Telugu: చితి (te) (citi)
• Urdu: چتا‎ m (citā)
• Welsh: coelcerth (cy) f

heap of combustibles

• Finnish: kokko (fi), rovio (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bål n

• Serbo-Croatian: lomača (sh) f

Further reading

• pyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prey, rype

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyreˣ/, [ˈpyre̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -yre
• Syllabification^(key): py‧re

Noun

pyre

1. Alternative form of pyree

Declension

Inflection of pyre (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative		pyre	pyreet
genitive		pyreen	pyreiden pyreitten
partitive		pyrettä	pyreitä
illative		pyreeseen	pyreisiin pyreihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pyre	pyreet
accusative	nom.	pyre	pyreet
	gen.	pyreen
genitive		pyreen	pyreiden pyreitten
partitive		pyrettä	pyreitä
inessive		pyreessä	pyreissä
elative		pyreestä	pyreistä
illative		pyreeseen	pyreisiin pyreihin
adessive		pyreellä	pyreillä
ablative		pyreeltä	pyreiltä
allative		pyreelle	pyreille
essive		pyreenä	pyreinä
translative		pyreeksi	pyreiksi
instructive		—	pyrein
abessive		pyreettä	pyreittä
comitative		—	pyreineen

Possessive forms of pyre (type hame)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	pyreeni	pyreemme
2nd person	pyreesi	pyreenne
3rd person	pyreensä