πῠρά, ᾶς,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πῠρή, ῆς, ἡ, (πῦρ) funeral-pyre, πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο θαμειαί [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.52, etc.; πυρῆς ἐπιβάντ᾽ ἀλεγεινῆς 4.99, etc.; ἐν δὲ πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ νεκρὸν θέσαν 23.165, 24.787, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.24, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1254, etc.; ποίησαν δὲ πυρὴν ἑκατόμπεδον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.164 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πυρὴν νῆσαι, συννῆσαι, to raise one, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.50, 86; πυρῆς ἁμμένης [prev. passage]; τινὰ πυρᾷ κέαντες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 757; σκῦλα πρὸς πυρὰν ἐμὴν κόμιζε [prev. author] “Ph.” 1432; ἐπὶ τῇ π. κείμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 614b; αἱ τῶν ζωγρηθέντων σφαγαὶ εἰς τὴν π. [prev. work] 391b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b mound raised on the place of the pyre, tumulus, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).63, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 901, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 386, “IT” 26. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 altar for burnt sacrifice, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.167, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1258 (troch.); ἑρκεῖος π. [prev. author] “Tr.” 483 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; fire burning thereon, uncertain reading in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.39. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 burning mass,[[ [prev. work] 107, 1st c.BC: Zosimus Epigrammaticus 2.13 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; λαμπάδων π. a mass of burning torches, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.36. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]