Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

empyreuma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: empyreuma
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The particular smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in sealed containers.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"If the Liquor retain a certain Empyreuma, or smatch of the fire, thou shalt help it by putting it into a glasse close stopt, and so exposing it to the heat of the sun, and now and then opening the glasse that the fiery impression may exhale, or else let the glasse stand in a cold moist place."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐμπύρευμα (empúreuma, “a live coal covered with ashes”). Compare French empyreume. See empyreal.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ἐμπύρευμα

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

empyreumas (plural) empyreumata (plural)

Derived Forms

empyreumatic

Questions

What does empyreuma mean?: The particular smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in sealed containers.
Where does empyreuma come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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