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before vowels pyr-, word-forming element form meaning "fire," from Greek pyro-, combining form of pyr (genitive pyros) "fire, funeral fire," also symbolic of terrible things, rages, "rarely as an image of warmth and comfort" [Liddell & Scott], from PIE root *paəwr- "fire" (see fire (n.)). Pyriphlegethon, literally "fire-blazing," was one of the rivers of Hell.