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Gender Masculine
Usage Literature, Arthurian Cycle
Meaning & History
From the Greek elements πῦρ (pyr) meaning "fire" and κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". In Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene (1590) this is the name of a reckless knight who, together with his brother Cymochles, represents emotional maladies that threaten temperance. Prince Arthur slays both brothers in Canto VIII.