Etymograph

English

Pyrocene

From pyro- + -cene, coined by American academic Stephen J.

Formed from pyro + cene

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ ‘fire’

Proto-Hellenic *pāwər

Ancient Greek πῦρ ‘fire’

English pyro

The story

From pyro- + -cene, coined by American academic Stephen J.

Today it means

name The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Pyrocene