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)