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empyrée

/ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/

noun, masculine/ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/

empyrée is masculine in French.

the empyrean, highest part of the sky, that the ancients considered as the stay of the deities.

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.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εμπύριος (empúrios, “that which is inflamed”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).