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- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
- Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
- Ancient Greekπυρά (purá)
- Latinpyra
- Englishpyre
- English todaypyran
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pyran
Today it means: Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms, an oxygen atom and two double bonds; especially the simplest one, C₅H₆O. Full definition →
English pyre ← Latin pyra ← Ancient Greek πυρά (purá)