πυρεῖον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῠρήϊον (purḗïon) — Ionic

Etymology

πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) ‎ -εῖον (-eîon, suffix forming nouns denoting instruments and means of action)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.rêː.on/ → /pyˈri.on/ → /piˈri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.rêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈri.on/

Noun

πῠρεῖον • (pureîon) n (genitive πῠρείου); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) a firestick (an implement used to start a fire by friction)

   Hyponyms: ἐσχᾰ́ρᾱ f (eskhárā, “stationary firestick”), τρῡ́πᾰνον n (trū́panon, “drill firestick”)

   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 111
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 36
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 5.3.4
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 5.67
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 435a:

     τάχʼ ἂν…τρίβοντες, ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων, ἐκλάμψαι ποιήσαιμεν τὴν δικαιοσύνην

     tákhʼ àn…tríbontes, hṓsper ek pureíōn, eklámpsai poiḗsaimen tḕn dikaiosúnēn

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.33:

     πυρεῖά τε χερσὶν ἐνώμων

     pureîá te khersìn enṓmōn

   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1184:

     ἀμφὶ πυρήϊα δινεύεσκον

     amphì purḗïa dineúeskon

   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A True Story 1.32:

     πυρεῖα συντρίψαντες

     pureîa suntrípsantes

   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fire 64
2. an earthen pan for coals

   Synonym: θῡμῐᾱτήρῐον (thūmiātḗrion)

   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον , (πυρίον)
   • a. AD 893, Photius, Lexicon
   • Suid.
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 27.3
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Chronicles 4.11
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Chronicles 4.21

Declension

Second declension of τὸ πῠρεῖον; τοῦ πῠρείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πῠρεῖον tò pureîon	τὼ πῠρείω tṑ pureíō	τᾰ̀ πῠρεῖᾰ tà pureîa
Genitive	τοῦ πῠρείου toû pureíou	τοῖν πῠρείοιν toîn pureíoin	τῶν πῠρείων tôn pureíōn
Dative	τῷ πῠρείῳ tôi pureíōi	τοῖν πῠρείοιν toîn pureíoin	τοῖς πῠρείοις toîs pureíois
Accusative	τὸ πῠρεῖον tò pureîon	τὼ πῠρείω tṑ pureíō	τᾰ̀ πῠρεῖᾰ tà pureîa
Vocative	πῠρεῖον pureîon	πῠρείω pureíō	πῠρεῖᾰ pureîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Katharevousa: πυρεῖον (pureîon) (learned)

Further reading

• “πῠρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πυρεῖον”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “πυρεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πῠρεῖον (pureîon, “firestick”), only for Katharevousa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈɾi.on/
• Hyphenation: πυ‧ρεῖ‧ον

Noun

πυρεῖον • (pureîon) n (plural πυρεῖα)

1. (Katharevousa) a match, a matchstick (a small stick tipped with a substance susceptible to ignition by friction)

   In Strandard Modern Greek: σπίρτο n (spírto)

Declension

Katharevousa declension: see #Ancient Greek without prosody, without dual.