# πυρά
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* πυρή (purḗ) — Epic, Ionic

### Etymology 1

Derived from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /py.rǎː/ → /pyˈra/ → /piˈra/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /py.rǎː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pyˈra/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /pyˈra/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /pyˈra/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /piˈra/

#### Noun

πῠρᾱ́ • (purā́) f (genitive πῠρᾶς); first declension
* funeral pyre

##### Related terms

* πῦρ (pûr)

##### Descendants

* → Greek: πυρά (pyrá) (learned)
* Latin: pyra
** → English: pyre

##### References

* “πυρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* 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
* G4443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

### Etymology 2

Derived from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Originally the plural.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /py.rá/ → /pyˈra/ → /piˈra/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /py.rá/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pyˈra/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /pyˈra/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /pyˈra/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /piˈra/

#### Noun

πυρά • (purá) n (genitive πυρῶν); second declension
* (attested as plural only) watchfires

##### References

* “πυρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “πυρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* πυρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* πυρά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “πυρά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G4443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. camp fires idem, page 110.funeral idem, page 349.mound idem, page 543.pile idem, page 612.pyre idem, page 662.watch fire idem, page 965.
* 1 2 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, page 1260

## Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piˈɾa/
* Hyphenation: πυ‧ρά

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá).

#### Noun

πυρά • (pyrá) f (plural πυρές) (formal)
* the stake (when used in English with the definite article - a place of execution)
    θάνατος επί της πυράς ― thánatos epí tis pyrás ― death at the stake
* pyre
    η πυρά του βωμού ― i pyrá tou vomoú ― the pyre of the altar

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Plural of πυρ (pyr)

#### Noun

πυρά • (pyrá) n
* (in the plural: military) firing of arms, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of πυρ (pyr)
    τα πυρά των όπλων ― ta pyrá ton óplon ― the firing of arms

### References

* πυρά, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language