piton

Borrowed from French piton (“nail”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːˌtɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːtɒn

piton (plural pitons)

1. (climbing) A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).

   Hyponyms: bong, knifeblade, RURP

   Coordinate terms: nut, chockstone, chock

piton (third-person singular simple present pitons, present participle pitoning, simple past and past participle pitoned)

1. (climbing) To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing.

• piton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Pinto, Point, opt in, opt-in, pinot, pinto, point, potin

Borrowed from French python

piton

1. python (constricting snake)

• “piton”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Occitan pitt- +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

• Audio (Canada):

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piton m (plural pitons)

1. nail (metal object)

   Synonym: clou

2. spike, pick (especially for mountaineering)

• → English: piton
• → Portuguese: pitão
• → Romanian: piton

• “piton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• point

From scientific Latin python, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo,^[1] from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiton]
• Hyphenation: pi‧ton
• Rhymes: -on

piton (plural pitonok)

1. python (constricting snake)

   Synonym: óriáskígyó

• Audio:

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piton m (plural pitons)

1. python

Borrowed from French python.

piton m (plural pitoni)

1. python

Borrowed from French piton.

piton n (plural pitoane)

1. piton (spike, wedge, or peg driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber))

• “piton”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

• IPA^(key): /pǐtoːn/
• Hyphenation: pi‧ton

pìtōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling пѝто̄н)

1. python (constricting snake)

• “piton”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /pitóːn/

pitọ̑n m anim

1. python (constricting snake)

• “piton”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], French python, from Latin pȳthon, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

piton (definite accusative pitonu, plural pitonlar)

1. python (constricting snake)

• pitón

piton m (plural pitoni)

1. turkey