Words that come from Ancient Greek “πῦρ”

400 words across 28 languages descend from Ancient Greek πῦρ — including bureaucracy, bureaucratic, bureau, pyre, bureaucrat, pyrite, Pyrrhus, pyrites.

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English (256)

Italian (31)

Ancient Greek (17)

Latin (14)

Swedish (13)

Translingual (10)

Dutch (9)

French (8)

Polish (6)

Greek (4)

Hungarian (4)

Catalan (3)

Irish (3)

Tagalog (2)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Turkish (2)

Czech (2)

Armenian (2)

Esperanto (2)

Cebuano (2)

Volapük (1)

Arabic (1)

Russian (1)

Georgian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Hebrew (1)

Chinese (1)

Japanese (1)