Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πυθών f ‎(Puthṓn)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pyθó/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyθó/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piθó/

Proper noun

Πῡθώ • ‎(Pūthṓ) f ‎(genitive Πυθοῦς); mixed declension

1. Pytho; the ancient name of Delphi
2. Python, the monstrous snake said to have been slain by Pythian Apollo at Delphi

Inflection

Derived terms

• Πυθία f ‎(Puthía)
• Πύθια n ‎(Púthia) plural
• Πύθιον n ‎(Púthion)
• Πύθιος ‎(Púthios)
• Πυθόθεν ‎(Puthóthen)
• Πυθοῖ ‎(Puthoî)
• Πυθοῖδε ‎(Puthoîde)
• Πυθοκτόνος ‎(Puthoktónos)
• Πύθων m ‎(Púthōn)

Descendants

• Latin: Pȳthō
• Latin: Pȳthius
• Latin: Pȳthia
• English: Python
• English: Pythian
• English: Pythia

References

• Πυθώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Πυθώ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Πυθώ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Πυθώ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023

1. ↑ Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, Volume 25, p. 656