Πυθαγόρας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • Πῡθᾰγόρης (Pūthăgórēs) — Ionic

Etymology

Aristippus explained his name by saying, "He spoke (-agor-) the truth no less than did the Pythian (Pyth-)", thus referring his name to Πυθία (Puthía, “Apollonian oracle of Delphi”) and ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak publicly in the agora”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς • (Pūthăgórās) m (genitive Πῡθᾰγόρου); first declension

  1. a male given name, Pythagoras, notably borne by the pre-Socratic philosopher Pythagoras of Samos

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς; τοῦ Πῡθᾰγόρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς
ho Pūthăgórās 		τὼ Πῡθᾰγόρᾱ
tṑ Pūthăgórā 		οἱ Πῡθᾰγόραι
hoi Pūthăgórai
Genitive τοῦ Πῡθᾰγόρου
toû Pūthăgórou 		τοῖν Πῡθᾰγόραιν
toîn Pūthăgórain 		τῶν Πῡθᾰγορῶν
tôn Pūthăgorôn
Dative τῷ Πῡθᾰγόρᾳ
tōî Pūthăgórāi 		τοῖν Πῡθᾰγόραιν
toîn Pūthăgórain 		τοῖς Πῡθᾰγόραις
toîs Pūthăgórais
Accusative τὸν Πῡθᾰγόρᾱν
tòn Pūthăgórān 		τὼ Πῡθᾰγόρᾱ
tṑ Pūthăgórā 		τοὺς Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς
toùs Pūthăgórās
Vocative Πῡθᾰγόρᾱ
Pūthăgórā 		Πῡθᾰγόρᾱ
Pūthăgórā 		Πῡθᾰγόραι
Pūthăgórai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Πῡθᾰγόρειος (Pūthăgóreios)
  • Πῡθᾰγορῐ́ζω (Pūthăgorĭ́zō)
  • Πῡθᾰγορῐκός (Pūthăgorĭkós)
  • Πῡθᾰγορῐσμός (Pūthăgorĭsmós)
  • Πῡθᾰγορῐστής (Pūthăgorĭstḗs)

Descendants

References

  • “Πυθαγόρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Πυθαγόρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
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