Πύθων

See also: Πυθών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ) +‎ -ων (-ōn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py̌ː.tʰɔːn/ → /ˈpy.θon/ → /ˈpi.θon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py̌ː.tʰɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.tʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.θon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.θon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θon/

Proper noun

Πῡ́θων • (Pū́thōn) m (genitive Πῡ́θωνος); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Python (earth-dragon of Delphi)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Πύ̄θων; τοῦ Πῡ́θωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πύ̄θων ho Pú̄thōn
Genitive	τοῦ Πῡ́θωνος toû Pū́thōnos
Dative	τῷ Πῡ́θωνῐ tôi Pū́thōni
Accusative	τὸν Πῡ́θωνᾰ tòn Pū́thōna
Vocative	Πῡ́θων Pū́thōn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: пито́н (pitón)
• → Catalan: pitó
• → Danish: pyton
• → Dutch: python
• → English: python, Python
• → Esperanto: pitono
• → Finnish: pyton
• → French: python
• → Galician: pitón
• → German: Python
• → Hungarian: piton
• → Ido: pitono
• → Interlingua: python
• → Latin: pȳthōn
• → Macedonian: питон (piton)
• → Occitan: piton
• → Polish: pyton
• → Romanian: piton
• → Russian: пито́н (pitón)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pìtōn
• → Slovene: pitọ̑n
• → Spanish: pitón
• → Swedish: pyton
• → Turkish: piton

Further reading

• Πύθων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Πύθων”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Πύθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G4436 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible