python

See also: Python

English

A python constricting a goat.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πύθων ‎(Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, from Πῡθώ ‎(Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πυθώ ‎(puthṓ, “to rot, to decay”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθɑːn/

Noun

python ‎(plural pythons)

1. A type of large constricting snake.

Translations

constricting snake

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պիթոն (hy) ‎(pitʿon)
• Basque: pitoi
• Belarusian: пітон m ‎(pitón)
• Binukid: bakesan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟒 (zh) ‎(mǎng), 巨蟒 (zh) ‎(jùmǎng), 蟒蛇 (zh) ‎(mǎngshé), 巨蛇 (zh) ‎(jùshé)

• Czech: krajta (cs) f
• Danish: pyton c
• Dupaninan Agta: iraw
• Dutch: python (nl) m
• Esperanto: pitono
• Finnish: pyton (fi)
• French: python (fr) m
• Galician: pitón f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Python (de) m, Pythonschlange f
• Greek: πύθωνας (el) m ‎(pýthonas)
• Hungarian: piton (hu), óriáskígyó (hu)
• Ido: (♂♀) pitono (io), (♂) pitonulo, (♀) pitonino, (♂♀ offspring) pitonyuno, (♂ offspring) pitonyunulo, (♀ offspring) pitonyunino
• Irish: píotón m1
• Italian: pitone (it) m
• Japanese: ニシキヘビ ‎(nishiki-hebi), 錦蛇 (ja) ‎(にしきへび, nishiki-hebi)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Kurdish: pîton (ku)
• Lithuanian: pitonas m, also smauglys m
• Lun Bawang: menelen
• Macedonian: питон m ‎(pitón), удав m ‎(údav)
• Manx: aarnieu traastey m
• Polish: pyton (pl) m
• Portuguese: pitão (pt) m
• Romanian: piton (ro) m, șarpe piton m
• Russian: пито́н (ru) m ‎(pitón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: питон m, удав m, боа f

  Roman: piton (sh) m, udav (sh) m, boa (sh) f

• Slovene: piton (sl) m
• Spanish: pitón (es) m
• Swahili: chatu (sw)
• Swedish: pytonorm c, pyton (sv) c
• Tagalog: sawa
• Telugu: కొండచిలువ (te) ‎(koṃḍaciluva)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: piton (tr)
• Ukrainian: пітон m ‎(pitón)
• Vietnamese: trăn (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) pütonasnek, (♂) pütonahisnek, (♀) pütonajisnek, (♂♀ offspring) pütonasnekül, (♂ offspring) pütonahisnekül, (♀ offspring) pütonajisnekül, (♂♀) püton, (♂) hipüton, (♀) jipüton, (♂♀ offspring) pütonül, (♂ offspring) hipütonül, (♀ offspring) jipütonül

Anagrams

• Typhon

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

Noun

python m ‎(plural pythons)

1. python

Anagrams

• typhon

External links

• “python” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingua

Noun

python ‎(plural pythones)

1. python

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Latin

Etymology

From the name of a snake slain at Delphi

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpyː.tʰon/, [ˈpyː.tʰõ]

Noun

pȳthon f ‎(genitive pȳthōnis); third declension

1. soothsayer

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pȳthon	pȳthōnēs
genitive	pȳthōnis	pȳthōnum
dative	pȳthōnī	pȳthōnibus
accusative	pȳthōnem	pȳthōnēs
ablative	pȳthōne	pȳthōnibus
vocative	pȳthon	pȳthōnēs