Talk:Pytho

RFV discussion: July–September 2017

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Pytho

RFV for all inflected forms (except nominative).
Maybe note:

• It has been pointed before elsewhere that the declension is wrong (e.g. WT:RFDO#Template:la-decl-4th-argo).
• Dictionaries do give a genitive "Pȳthūs", but this could be unattested too.
• If - is used for unattested forms like for example in Dīdō, then head and declension could look like this:

Pȳthō f
Template:la-decl-noun-table-single

If other words are used for making up forms - which is common practice at wiktionary for "normal" Latin words -, it could look like this:

{{la-proper noun|Pȳthō|Pȳthūs|f|third}}<br/> {{la-decl-noun-table-single|title=Third declension, Greek type|nom_sg=Pȳthō|gen_sg=Pȳthūs|dat_sg=Pȳthō|acc_sg=Pȳthō|voc_sg=Pȳthō|abl_sg=Pȳthō}} -84.161.53.42 21:41, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Would be RFV failed already, and the entry is improved now.
Luc./Lucan. 5, 134 and Tib./Tibull. 2, 3, 27 (older addition: Python, Müll.) are the only sources given by common dics, and Lucanus has "Python". That proofs that the old inflection was wrong or at least incomplete. Sappho from the same declension and with attested abl. "Sappho" shows that WT's "Pȳthuī" was more than doubtful. -84.161.57.35 01:52, 2 September 2017 (UTC)