The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπῦρ“fire”
- English todaypyro
Shortening of a word starting with pyro-, ultimately from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπῦρ all →
pyrotechnicpyroclasticpyropedipyreeupyrionpyrargyritepyro-pyroballogypyrophorepyrophoruspyruvic acid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.