πυρᾶς (pyras)

πυρᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of πυρή, meaning “funeral pyre”.

It can also be a form of πυρά, “funeral pyre”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.52.4: … . καὶ πολλοὶ ἐς ἀναισχύντους θήκας ἐτράποντο σπάνει τῶν ἐπιτηδείων διὰ τὸ συχνοὺς ἤδη προτεθνάναι σφίσιν· ἐπὶ πυρὰς γὰρ ἀλλοτρίας φθάσαντες τοὺς νήσαντας οἱ μὲν ἐπιθέντες τὸν ἑαυτῶν νεκρὸν ὑφῆπτον, οἱ δὲ καιομένου ἄλλου ἐπιβα …

Euripides, Hecuba 437: βαίνω μεταξὺ καὶ πυρᾶς Ἀχιλλέως.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.79.2: … ς, ἀλλʼ εὐθὺς ἅμα τῷ αὐτὰ διαπράξασθαι τὰ θαυμαστὰ ἔργα, πρὶν ἢ μαρανθῆναι τὰς ὑποδεξαμένας τὰ δύστηνα σώματα πυράς, φίλους εἱστία καὶ γάμους ἐπετέλει καὶ τὴν ἀνδροφόνον νύμφην ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς ἀδελφῆς θάλαμον ἤγετο τὰς ἀπορρήτους …

All forms of πυρή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.