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πυρά̄

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρά̄ πυρᾶς

Structure: πυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: The accent, as well as the dat. puroi=s, shews that it does not belong to pu=r.

Sense

  1. funeral pyre

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἔνθ’ οἳ μὲν ἐπ’ ἄκραισι πυραῖσ νέκυεσ ἔκειντο γῆσ ἐπὶ ξένησ, ὀρφανὰ τείχεα προλιπόντεσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἱερῆσ καὶ μυχὸν ἑστίησ πατρῴησ, ἥβην τ’ ἐρατὴν καὶ καλὸν ἡλίου πρόσωπον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 416)
  • ἔπειτα κατασφάξαντέσ τ’ αὐτῷ πολλὰ βοσκήματα καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπαρξάμενοι πάντων, ὅσων ἄνθρωποι βασιλεῦσιν ἢ στρατιᾶσ ἡγεμόσιν ἐπὶ πυραῖσ ἀπάρχονται, παρέμειναν οἱ μάλιστα τὸν ἄνδρα ἀσπαζόμενοι μέχρι τοῦ μαρανθῆναι τὴν φλόγα, κἄπειτα συναγαγόντεσ τὰ λείψανα ἔθαψαν ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ χωρίῳ χώματι ὑψηλῷ διὰ πολυχειρίασ ἐργασθέντι μνῆμα ἐπίσημον ἐργασάμενοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 59 6:1)
  • τὴν δὲ Μύριναν θάψασαν τὰσ ἀναιρεθείσασ τῶν συστρατευουσῶν ἐν τρισὶ πυραῖσ χωμάτων μεγάλων ἐπιστῆσαι τάφουσ τρεῖσ, οὓσ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν Ἀμαζόνων σωροὺσ ὀνομάζεσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 55 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. funeral pyre

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