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See also: pýre
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaɪɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: pyre
- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Noun
pyre (plural pyres)
- 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
- Any heap or pile of combustibles.
Derived terms
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Translations
funeral pile
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Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
pyre
- alternative form of pyree
Declension
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “pyre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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Swedish
Etymology
Apparently related to the verb pyra (“to smolder, sizzle, fidget”), itself of uncertain origin.
Noun
pyre n
- (colloquial) a small child (or animal); a tot, a sprout, a squirt, etc.
- mina små pyren
- my tiny tots
Usage notes
Sometimes as a pet name in the definite.
Declension
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References
- pyre in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- pyre in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- pyre in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- “pyre”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish), 1937
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