Πυθώ
See also: πύθω
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- Πυθών (Puthṓn)
Etymology edit
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-ṓ, from *dʰewb- (“depths, hollow, deep, bottom”), a reference to the monsters who inhabited the caverns, but it has also been linked to πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.tʰɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈtʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈθo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈθo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈθo/
Proper noun edit
Πῡθώ • (Pūthṓ) f (genitive Πῡθοῦς); third declension
- Pytho; the ancient name of Delphi
- Python, the monstrous snake said to have been slain by Pythian Apollo at Delphi
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References edit
- “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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- ^ Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, Volume 25, p. 656