pyre

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Doublet of fire.

noun

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
   For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.