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Pyrène

/pi.ʁɛn/

proper noun/pi.ʁɛn/

Pyrene (a daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her)

Inherited from Middle French Pyrene, from Latin Pȳrēnē, from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).

proper noun/pi.ʁɛn/

A toponym in Saleich, Haute-Garonne

Borrowed from Occitan.