"πυρκαϊά" meaning in Ancient Greek

See πυρκαϊά in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pyr.ka.i.ǎː/, /pyr.ka.iˈa/, /pir.ka.iˈa/, /pyr.ka.i.ǎː/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /pyr.ka.iˈa/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /pyr.ka.iˈa/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /pyr.ka.iˈa/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /pir.ka.iˈa/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + καίω (kaíō, “to light, kindle”). Etymology templates: {{compound|grc|πῦρ|καίω|t1=fire|t2=to light, kindle}} πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + καίω (kaíō, “to light, kindle”) Head templates: {{grc-noun|πῠρκᾰϊᾱ́|πῠρκᾰϊᾶς|f|first}} πῠρκᾰϊᾱ́ • (purkaïā́) f (genitive πῠρκᾰϊᾶς); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|πῠρκᾰϊ˘ά¯|ᾶς}} Forms: πῠρκᾰϊᾱ́ [canonical], purkaïā́ [romanization], πῠρκᾰϊᾶς [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ [nominative, singular], τὼ πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ [dual, nominative], αἱ πῠρκᾰϊ̆αί [nominative, plural], τῆς πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾶς [genitive, singular], τοῖν πῠρκᾰϊ̆αῖν [dual, genitive], τῶν πῠρκᾰϊ̆ῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾷ [dative, singular], τοῖν πῠρκᾰϊ̆αῖν [dative, dual], ταῖς πῠρκᾰϊ̆αῖς [dative, plural], τὴν πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ν [accusative, singular], τὼ πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ς [accusative, plural], πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ [singular, vocative], πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾱ́ [dual, vocative], πῠρκᾰϊ̆αί [plural, vocative]
  1. funeral pyre, burning pyre Categories (lifeform): Olive family plants
    Sense id: en-πυρκαϊά-grc-noun-AiXOyMBc Disambiguation of Olive family plants: 48 6 2 6 38 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 55 8 2 8 27 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 37 18 5 19 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 63 4 1 3 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 65 3 1 3 29
  2. conflagration, arson
    Sense id: en-πυρκαϊά-grc-noun-JgdsxMAK
  3. (figuratively) flame of love Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-πυρκαϊά-grc-noun-PVV9J6ID
  4. burnt ruins
    Sense id: en-πυρκαϊά-grc-noun-jSZtwDGV
  5. olive tree which has been burnt down to the stump
    Sense id: en-πυρκαϊά-grc-noun-wysnSdW~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: πυρκαϊή (purkaïḗ)
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      ],
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        [
          "olive tree",
          "olive tree"
        ],
        [
          "stump",
          "stump"
        ]
      ]
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    },
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      "ipa": "/pyr.ka.iˈa/"
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      "ipa": "/pir.ka.iˈa/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/pyr.ka.i.ǎː/",
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      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "τοῖν πῠρκᾰϊ̆αῖν",
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        "genitive"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "τῇ πῠρκᾰϊ̆ᾷ",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        [
          "olive tree",
          "olive tree"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pyr.ka.iˈa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pir.ka.iˈa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pyr.ka.i.ǎː/",
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    },
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    },
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      "ipa": "/pyr.ka.iˈa/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
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      "ipa": "/pir.ka.iˈa/",
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    {
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      "word": "πυρκαϊή"
    }
  ],
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.