Pyrene

Borrowed from Latin Pȳrēnē, from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).

• IPA^(key): /paɪˈɹiːni/^[1]
• Rhymes: -iːni^[2]

Pyrene

2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her.
3. (obsolete, with “the”) The Pyrenees.
   • 1636, William Camden, “Britaine”, in Remaines Concerning Britaine, London:  […] Thomas Harper, for John Waterſon, page 4:

     The power of the Kings more abſolute, than in moſt other kingdomes, their territories very large; for the Kings of England, beſide Ireland, have commanded from the Iſles of Orkenay, to the Pyrene Mountains, and are de jure,Kings of all France by deſcent.

   • 1878, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1, page 949:

     The Pyrene (Πυρήνη) or Pyrenaei Montes were the boundary between Gallia and Iberia […]

   • 1879, Edward Herbert Bunbury, A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans, volume 1, page 399:

     Again it is from the Pyrene, which is a mountain towards the equinoctial setting (i.e. due west) in Celtica, that both the Istrus and the Tartessus flow; […]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pyːˈreː.neː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [piˈrɛː.ne]

Pȳrēnē f sg (genitive Pȳrēnēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pyrene (a daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her)
2. the Pyrenees

   Synonym: Pȳrēnaei montes

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only.

• → English: Pyrene
• Middle French: Pyrene
  • French: Pyrène

• “Pȳrēnē”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin Pȳrēnē, from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).

Pyrene f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pyrene (a daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her)
   • 1587, Histoire generale d’Espagne, page 22:

     Les Pyrenees, qui ont prins leur nom ou de leur embraſement, duquel cy deuant a eſté faict mention (car pyr en grec, c’eſt feu) ou des frequentes fouldres dont leurs poinctes ſont battues, ou bien (ſi on veut receuoir les fables) de la nymphe Pyrene, fille de Bebrix, que Hercules engroſſa paſſant par là, eſtendent leur principale maſſe depuis le temple de Venus, ou cap de Crux, iuſques à Bayone : [...]

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• French: Pyrène