Translingual
Symbol
π
- (alchemy, archaic) ashes, cineres
Latin
Noun
π m or f (genitive πris); third declension
- (alchemy) alternative spelling of cinis (βashβ)
1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 404:AliΓ s Urna quoque VaΕΏculum dictum fuit, in quo Veteres gentiles Defunctorum crematorum πres aΕΏΕΏervarunt- Elsewhere urn was also the name of the vessel in which the old heathens preserved the ashes of the cremated dead
Declension
Third-declension noun.