empyrée
(Redirected from Empyrée)
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εμπύριος (empúrios, “that which is inflamed”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
empyrée m (uncountable)
- (literary) the empyrean, highest part of the sky, that the ancients considered as the stay of the deities.
- 1877, Victor Hugo, L'Art d'être grand-père:
- Enfants, dans vos yeux éclatants
Je crois voir l’empyrée éclore :
Vous riez comme le printemps
Et vous pleurez comme l’aurore.- Children, in your bright eyes
I think I see the empyrean bloom:
You laugh like the spring
And you cry like the dawn.
- Children, in your bright eyes
Usage notes edit
This word is said to exist in the singular only.
Further reading edit
- “empyrée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.