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- Latin · borrowed frompyrrhichius
- English todaypyrrhichius
Borrowed from Latin pyrrhichius, from πυρρίχη (purrhíkhē, “war dance”), from πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored, red”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpyrrhichius all →
pyrrhic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.