The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπῦρ“fire”
- English todaypyroclastic
From pyro- + clastic, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and κλαστός (klastós, “broken”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπῦρ all →
pyropyrotechnicpyropedipyreeupyrionpyrargyritepyro-pyroballogypyrophorepyrophoruspyruvic acid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.