pyre

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪɚ/

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• Hyphenation: pyre
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

pyre (plural pyres)

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
   • For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

• pyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• prey, rype

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyreˣ/,
• Rhymes: -yre
• Syllabification^(key): py‧re
• Hyphenation^(key): py‧re

pyre

1. Alternative form of pyree

• “pyre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Apparently related to the verb pyra (“to smolder, sizzle, fidget”), itself of uncertain origin.

pyre n

1. (colloquial) a small child (or animal); a tot, a sprout, a squirt, etc.

   mina små pyren

   my tiny tots

Sometimes as a pet name in the definite.

• parvel
• småtting

• pyre in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pyre in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pyre in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• “pyre”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok ‎ (in Swedish), 1937