pyre
Meaning
- A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
- Any heap or pile of combustibles.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaɪɚ/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Doublet of fire.
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