pyra Latin · revision 33209

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1st century BC, Bellum Africum and Virgil|origins=grc πῦρ}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpy.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpiː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pyra''' ''f'' (genitive pyrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|πυρά|tr=purá|t=funeral pyre]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|πῦρ|tr=pûr|t=fire]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is the ''Bellum Africum'',^(Köbler 2010) and Virgil has it in the ''Aeneid''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a funeral pile, a pyre, and also a similar pile for offerings to the gods of the underworld.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that the native Latin word is ''rogus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it too, and the Vulgate has it in Ezekiel.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Acts the Vulgate uses it for a fire.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “pyre, large fire”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – The ''Bellum Africum'', of a pyre.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of funeral pyres.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a pyre.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of a pyre and of a fire.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A funeral pile, [[m|en|pyre]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) a pile for offerings to the gods of the underworld.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A fire.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pyrula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rogus]]

+ * [[bustum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ With a capital, ''Pyra'' was the place on Mount Oeta where Hercules was said to have burned himself, as Livy mentions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}