Pytho
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ, “(the city of) Pytho”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpyː.tʰoː/, [ˈpyːt̪ʰoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.to/, [ˈpiːt̪o]
Proper noun edit
Pȳthō f sg (genitive Pȳthūs); fourth declension
- (historical) The city of Pytho.
- Albius Tibullus, 'Albii Tibulli elegiae', lib. 2, cap. 3, num. 27; in: Catullus[,] Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris, 1921, page 262f. with a translation into English by J. P. Postgate:
- Delos ubi nunc, Phoebe, tua est, ubi Delphica Pytho?
- Where, Phoebus, is thy Delos now, and where thy Delphian Pytho ?
- Delos ubi nunc, Phoebe, tua est, ubi Delphica Pytho?
- Albius Tibullus, 'Albii Tibulli elegiae', lib. 2, cap. 3, num. 27; in: Catullus[,] Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris, 1921, page 262f. with a translation into English by J. P. Postgate:
Inflection edit
Fourth-declension noun (all cases except the genitive singular in -ō), with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Pȳthō |
| Genitive | Pȳthūs |
| Dative | Pȳthō |
| Accusative | Pȳthō Pȳthōn |
| Ablative | Pȳthō |
| Vocative | Pȳthō |
| Locative | Pȳthō |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italian: Pito
References edit
- “Pytho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pytho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1284.
- Lucanus, de bello civili, lib. 5, num. 134; in: Lucanus. Bellum civile. Der Bürgerkrieg. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Wilhelm Ehlers., 2nd edition, 1978, page 198f. (has "Python")
- Lucanus, de bello civili, lib. 5, num. 134; in: Lucan with an English translation by J. D. Duff; The Civil War Books I–X (Phrasalia), 1962, page 248f. (has "Python")