Πύθων

See also: Πυθών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ) +‎ -ων (-ōn).

Pronunciation

(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

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

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Πῡ́θων; τοῦ Πῡ́θωνος (Attic)

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

Descendants

Descendants

→ Albanian: piton
→ 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
→ Italian: pitone
→ 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