English
empyrical
Empyrical comes from Latin empyricus, and goes back to Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος ‘fiery’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἐμπύριοςempúrios‘fiery’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEempyricus
- Englishearliest quotation 1796empyrical
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἐμπύριοςempúrios‘fiery’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEempyricus
- Englishearliest quotation 1796empyrical
Earliest quotation: 1796, Richard Kirwan: “, if it be rich , they will not…”
A compound of ἐν ‘en-’ + πῦρ ‘fire’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Ancient Greek ἐν ‘en-’
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥ ‘Derives object nouns from verbal roots’
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ ‘fire’
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ ‘fire’
Every English word from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος
Today it means
adj Containing the combustible principle of coal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος / empyrical