pyre

(Engels)

  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Frekwensie

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈpaɪɚ/
Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.

funeral pyre

funeral pile

burn at the stake

bale-fire

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