pyre

Significat (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

pira

pira funeral

Sinònims

funeral pyre

funeral pile

burn at the stake

bale-fire

Traduccions

Freqüència

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈpaɪɚ/
Etimologia (Anglès)

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

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