Ancient Greek

Noun

πῦρ • ‎(pûr) n ‎(genitive πυρός); third declension

1. a fire
   1. a funerary fire
   2. a sacrificial fire
2. lightning
3. a fever

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)

Descendants

• Greek: πυρ ‎(pyr)
• English: pyro-

References

• 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