python

python

See also: Python

English

a python (Python natalensis) constricting a goat.

Etymology

Latin pȳthon, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from Πυθώ (Puthṓ), older name of Delphi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθɑn/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪθən, (General American) -aɪθɑn

Noun

python (plural pythons)

1. A type of large constricting snake.
2. (vulgar, slang) A penis.

Derived terms

• Burmese python
• carpet python
• diamond python
• pig in the python
• pythoness
• pythonic
• pythonlike
• reticulated python
• syphon the python

 

Translations

constricting snake

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: պիթոն (hy) (pitʿon) Basque: pitoi Belarusian: піто́н m (pitón) Binukid: bakesan Bulgarian: питон (bg) (piton) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: pitó (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 蟒 (zh) (mǎng), 巨蟒 (zh) (jùmǎng), 蟒蛇 (zh) (mǎngshé), 巨蛇 (zh) (jùshé) Czech: krajta (cs) f Danish: pyton c Dinka: nyiëël (Rek dialect) Dupaningan Agta: iraw Dutch: python (nl) m Esperanto: pitono Finnish: pyton (fi) French: python (fr) m Galician: pitón f Georgian: პითონი (ṗitoni) German: Python (de) m, Pythonschlange (de) f Greek: πύθωνας (el) m (pýthonas) Hindi: अजगर (hi) m (ajgar), अजदहा (hi) m (ajadhā), अजदाह (hi) m (ajdāh), अजदर (hi) m (ajdar) Hungarian: piton (hu), óriáskígyó (hu) Ido: pitono (io) Irish: píotón m Italian: pitone (it) m Japanese: ニシキヘビ (ja) (nishiki-hebi), 錦蛇 (ja) (にしきへび, nishiki-hebi) Kapampangan: bitin bitin sawa Khmer: ថ្លាន់ (km) (thlan), ពស់ថ្លាន់ (pŭəh thlan) Kikuyu: itarara class 5 (especially African rock python) Korean: 비단뱀 (bidanbaem) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pîton (ku) Latvian: pitons m Lithuanian: pitonas m, smauglys m Lun Bawang: menelen Luo: ng'ielo (especially African rock python), ng'ielno (especially African rock python) Macedonian: пито́н m (pitón), у́дав m (údav) Malay: ular sawa Manchu: ᠵᠠᠪᠵᠠᠨ (jabjan) Manx: aarnieu traastey m Maori: paitana Mon: ကၠန် (mnw) (klɔn) Nyankole: oruziramere Pali: ajagara m Persian: پیتون‎ (piton), پایتون‎ (pāyton), شیبا‎ (fa) (šībā) Polish: pyton (pl) m Portuguese: pitão (pt) m Romanian: piton (ro) m, șarpe piton m Russian: пито́н (ru) m (pitón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пѝто̄н m, у̏да̄в m, бо̏а f Roman: pìtōn (sh) m, ȕdāv (sh) m, bȍa (sh) f Sicilian: pituni m Slovene: piton (sl) m Spanish: pitón (es) m Swahili: chatu (sw) Swedish: pytonorm (sv) c, pyton (sv) c Tagalog: sawa Telugu: కొండచిలువ (te) (koṇḍaciluva) Thai: หลาม (lǎam), เหลือม (th) (lʉ̌ʉam) Tswana: tlhware (tn) Turkish: piton (tr) Ukrainian: піто́н m (pitón) Vietnamese: trăn (vi) Volapük: pütonasnek, püton Yoruba: ejo mọnamọna (ball python) Zulu: inhlwathi class 9/10

References

• Pythonidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pythonidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pythonidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• “python”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “python”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), “piton”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Anagrams

• Typhon, phyton, typhon

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pythōn, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tɔn/

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• Hyphenation: py‧thon

Noun

python m (plural pythons)

1. python, constrictor of the family Pythonidae

Derived terms

• netpython
• rotspython
• tijgerpython

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French

Etymology

From Latin python.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

python m (plural pythons)

1. python

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• typhon

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Interlingua

Noun

python (plural pythones)

1. python

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from Πυθώ (Puthṓ), older name of Delphi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpyː.tʰon/, [ˈpyːt̪ʰɔn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ton/, [ˈpiːt̪on]

Noun

pȳthon m (genitive pȳthōnis, feminine pȳthōnissa); third declension

1. soothsayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pȳthon	pȳthōnēs
Genitive	pȳthōnis	pȳthōnum
Dative	pȳthōnī	pȳthōnibus
Accusative	pȳthōnem	pȳthōnēs
Ablative	pȳthōne	pȳthōnibus
Vocative	pȳthon	pȳthōnēs