empyrée

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εμπύριος (empúrios, “that which is inflamed”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/

Noun

empyrée m (uncountable)

  1. (literary) the empyrean, highest part of the sky, that the ancients considered as the stay of the deities.
    • 1877, Victor Hugo, L'Art d'être grand-père:
      Enfants, dans vos yeux éclatants
      Je crois voir l’empyrée éclore :
      Vous riez comme le printemps
      Et vous pleurez comme l’aurore.
      Children, in your bright eyes
      I think I see the empyrean bloom:
      You laugh like the spring
      And you cry like the dawn.

Usage notes

This word is said to exist in the singular only.

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