πυρεῖον

• πῠρήϊον (purḗïon) — Ionic

πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon, suffix forming nouns denoting instruments and means of action)

πῠρεῖον • (pureîon) n (genitive πῠρείου); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) a firestick (an implement used to start a fire by friction)

   Hyponyms: ἐσχᾰ́ρᾱ f (eskhárā, “stationary firestick”), τρῡ́πᾰνον n (trū́panon, “drill firestick”)

   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 111
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 36
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 5.3.4
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 5.67
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 435a:

     τάχʼ ἂν…τρίβοντες, ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων, ἐκλάμψαι ποιήσαιμεν τὴν δικαιοσύνην

     tákhʼ àn…tríbontes, hṓsper ek pureíōn, eklámpsai poiḗsaimen tḕn dikaiosúnēn

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.33:

     πυρεῖά τε χερσὶν ἐνώμων

     pureîá te khersìn enṓmōn

   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1184:

     ἀμφὶ πυρήϊα δινεύεσκον

     amphì purḗïa dineúeskon

   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A True Story 1.32:

     πυρεῖα συντρίψαντες

     pureîa suntrípsantes

   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fire 64
2. an earthen pan for coals

   Synonym: θῡμῐᾱτήρῐον (thūmiātḗrion)

   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον , (πυρίον)
   • a. AD 893, Photius, Lexicon
   • Suid.
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 27.3
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Chronicles 4.11
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Chronicles 4.21

• → Katharevousa: πυρεῖον (pureîon) (learned)

• “πῠρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πυρεῖον”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “πυρεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πῠρεῖον (pureîon, “firestick”), only for Katharevousa.

• IPA^(key): /piˈɾi.on/
• Hyphenation: πυ‧ρεῖ‧ον

πυρεῖον • (pureîon) n (plural πυρεῖα)

1. (Katharevousa) a match, a matchstick (a small stick tipped with a substance susceptible to ignition by friction)

   In Strandard Modern Greek: σπίρτο n (spírto)

Katharevousa declension: see #Ancient Greek without prosody, without dual.