empireo

empyrean

noun em-PEE-reh-oh Rare

Origin: From Greek empyrios (in fire), from en (in) + pyr (fire); in medieval cosmology the outermost sphere of heaven.

Also means

highest heaven

Usage Note

Empireo denotes the highest heaven in medieval cosmology, the realm of pure fire and divine light — the setting Dante reaches at the end of the Paradiso. In modern usage it is literary or figurative: essere nell'empireo means to be in a lofty, rarefied realm (of power, fame, or abstraction). It is masculine: l'empireo.

Examples

"Dante raggiunse l'empireo nel suo poema."

Natural Translation

Dante reached the empyrean in his poem.

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