πῦρ
See also: πυρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Cognates include Old English fȳr (English fire), Old Armenian հուր (hur), Hittite 𒉺𒀪𒄯 (paḫḫur), Tocharian A por, and Tocharian B puwar.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pŷːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyr/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyr/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyr/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pir/
Noun
πῦρ • (pûr) n (genitive πῠρός); third declension
Usage notes
Not used in plural, but there is a related second-declension plural noun πῠρᾰ́ (purá, “watchfires”); distinguish this from the first-declension noun πῠρᾱ́ (purā́, “funeral pyre”).
Inflection
Related terms
- πῠρᾱ́ (purā́)
- πυράζω (purázō)
- πυρακτέω (puraktéō)
- Πυριλάμπης (Purilámpēs)
- πυρρός (purrhós)
Further reading
- πῦρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πῦρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πῦρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πῦρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πῦρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- πῦρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4442 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blaze idem, page 82.
- conflagration idem, page 159.
- fire idem, page 322.
- flame idem, page 325.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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