Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πυρή ‎(purḗ) (Epic, Ionic)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /pyra͜á/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyráː/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pyrá/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyrá/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piɾá/

Noun

πυρά • ‎(purá) f ‎(genitive πυρᾶς); first declension

1. funeral pyre

Inflection

Related terms

• πῦρ ‎(pûr)

Descendants

• Greek: πυρά ‎(pyrá)
• Latin: pyra
  • English: pyre

References

• πυρά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• LDJ
• BDAG
• “G4443”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Etymology

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /pyrá/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyrá/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pyrá/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyrá/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piɾá/

Noun

πυρά • ‎(purá) n ‎(genitive πυρῶν); second declension

1. watch-fires

Inflection

References

• πυρά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πυρά in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πυρά» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πυρά» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πυρά in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4443”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • camp fires idem, page 110.
  • funeral idem, page 349.
  • mound idem, page 543.
  • pile idem, page 612.
  • pyre idem, page 662.
  • watch fire idem, page 965.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πυρά ‎(purá).

Noun

πυρά • ‎(pyrá) f ‎(uncountable)

1. the stake (when used in English with the definite article - a place of execution)
2. pyre

Declension