pyre

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/
• Hyphenation: pyre
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

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, pyrée

Translations

funeral pile

• Catalan: pira (ca) f
• 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 Greek: πυρά f (purá)

• Hindi: चिता (hi) m (citā)
• Hungarian: máglya (hu)
• Irish: breocharn m
• Italian: pira (it) f, rogo (it)

• Latin: rogus m, pyra
• Polish: stos pogrzebowy m
• Portuguese: pira (pt) f
• Romanian: rug (ro) n
• Russian: погреба́льный костёр m (pogrebálʹnyj kostjór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: lòmača (sh) 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)

Further reading

• pyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prey, rype