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pyr

fire

Greek · pyr (πῦρ)

Pyr comes from Greek pyr, fire. A pyre is a pile of wood for burning, empyrean and empyreal name the highest heaven imagined as pure fire, and a pyralid is a moth family named after fire.

Memory trick

Pyr sounds like 'fire' with a P: the pyre is a fire stack.

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