different between empyreal vs pyre

English

Etymology

From Latin empyreus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (empúrios, “fiery”), from ?? (en, “en-”) + ??? (pûr, “fire”) (English pyre).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?p????l/, /?mp???i?.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??.i.?l/

Adjective

empyreal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean

   Synonyms: celestial, sublime, exalted

2. Of the sky or heavens.
3. Fiery, made of pure fire.

Synonyms

• (pertaining to the highest heaven): celestial, empyrean, exalted.
• (made of pure fire): fiery

Translations

See also

• empyrical

References

• empyreal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek ???? (purá), from ??? (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh?wr?.

Doublet of fire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa??/
• Hyphenation: pyre
• Rhymes: -a??(r)

Noun

pyre (plural pyres)

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
   • For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Related terms

• pyrée

Translations

Further reading

• pyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prey, rype

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pyre?/, [?pyre?(?)]
• Rhymes: -yre
• Syllabification: py?re

Noun

pyre

1. Alternative form of pyree

Declension