Pythagoras

See also: Pýþagóras

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /paɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/ or IPA^(key): /paɪˈθæ.ɡɚ.əs/

Proper noun

Pythagoras

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
   1. Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
      • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

        Gratiano:
        O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
        And for thy life let justice be accused.
        Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
        To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
        That souls of animals infuse themselves
        Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
        Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
        Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
        And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
        Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
        Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

2. (mathematics, colloquial) Ellipsis of Pythagoras' theorem.
   • Serge Lang and Gene Murrow (1988) Geometry, →ISBN, page 203: “By Pythagoras, we find the length of the third side, |AB|² = (2a)² – a² = 4a² – a² = 3a²”

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Pythagoras' theorem
• Pythagorean
• Pythagoreanism
• Pythagorean triple
• theorem of Pythagoras

Translations

Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

• Albanian: Pitagora
• Arabic: فِيثَاغُورَس (fīṯāḡūras)

  Hijazi Arabic: فيثاغورس m (fīṯāḡōrs)

• Armenian: Պյութագորաս (Pyutʻagoras)

  Old Armenian: Պիւթագորաս (Piwtʻagoras)

• Asturian: Pitágoras
• Azerbaijani: Pifaqor
• Basque: Pythagoras
• Bengali: পিথাগোরাস (pithagōraś)
• Bulgarian: Питагор m (Pitagor)
• Catalan: Pitàgores
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 畢達哥拉斯／毕达哥拉斯 (zh) (Bìdágēlāsī)

• Czech: Pythagoras m
• Danish: Pythagoras
• Dutch: Pythagoras (nl)
• Esperanto: Pitagoro
• Estonian: Pythagoras (et)
• Finnish: Pythagoras
• French: Pythagore (fr)
• Galician: Pitágoras
• Georgian: პითაგორა (ṗitagora)
• German: Pythagoras (de)
• Greek: Πυθαγόρας (el) (Pythagóras)

  Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας m (Puthagóras)

• Hebrew: פיתגורס
• Hungarian: Püthagorasz (hu)
• Icelandic: Pýþagóras
• Ido: Pitagoro (io)
• Indonesian: Pythagoras
• Irish: Píotágarás m
• Italian: Pitagora
• Japanese: ピタゴラス (Pitagorasu), ピュタゴラス (Pyutagorasu)
• Javanese: Pythagoras
• Khmer: ពីតាករ (piitaakɑɑ)
• Korean: 피타고라스 (Pitagoraseu)
• Latin: Pythagoras
• Latvian: Pitagors
• Lithuanian: Pitagoras
• Low German: Pythagoras
• Luxembourgish: Pythagoras
• Macedonian: Питагора m (Pitagora)
• Malay: Pythagoras
• Marathi: पाय्थागोरास m (pāythāgorās)
• Norwegian: Pythagoras
• Persian: فیثاغورث (fa) (fisâğures), پیتاگوراس (pitâgurâs)
• Polish: Pitagoras (pl)
• Portuguese: Pitágoras (pt)
• Romanian: Pitagora
• Russian: Пифаго́р (ru) m (Pifagór)
• Scottish Gaelic: Pythagoras
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Питагора m

  Latin: Pitagora m

• Sicilian: Pitàgura
• Slovak: Pytagoras
• Slovene: Pitágora (sl) m, Pitágoras m
• Spanish: Pitágoras
• Swahili: Pithagoras
• Swedish: Pythagoras c
• Tagalog: Pythagoras
• Thai: พีทาโกรัส
• Turkish: Pisagor
• Ukrainian: Піфаго́р (Pifahór)
• Vietnamese: Pytago
• Welsh: Pythagoras
• Yiddish: פּיטאַגאָראַס (pitagoras)

See also

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Socrates

Further reading

• “Pythagoras”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Pythagoras”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Pythagoras”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Czech

Proper noun

Pythagoras m anim (related adjective Pythagorův)

1. Pythagoras

Declension

Declension of Pythagoras (sg-only hard masculine animate irreg-stem)

	singular
nominative	Pythagoras
genitive	Pythagora
dative	Pythagorovi
accusative	Pythagora
vocative	Pythagore
locative	Pythagorovi
instrumental	Pythagorem

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpytɑɡorɑs/, [ˈpyt̪ɑ̝ˌɡo̞rɑ̝s̠]
• Syllabification^(key): Py‧tha‧go‧ras

Noun

Pythagoras

1. Pythagoras

   Pythagoraan kolmikko ― Pythagorean triple

   Pythagoraan kolmio ― Pythagorean triangle

   Pythagoraan vakio ― Pythagoras' constant

Declension

Inflection of Pythagoras (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation)
nominative		Pythagoras	—
genitive		Pythagoraan	—
partitive		Pythagorasta	—
illative		Pythagoraaseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Pythagoras	—
accusative	nom.	Pythagoras	—
	gen.	Pythagoraan
genitive		Pythagoraan	—
partitive		Pythagorasta	—
inessive		Pythagoraassa	—
elative		Pythagoraasta	—
illative		Pythagoraaseen	—
adessive		Pythagoraalla	—
ablative		Pythagoraalta	—
allative		Pythagoraalle	—
essive		Pythagoraana	—
translative		Pythagoraaksi	—
abessive		Pythagoraatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Pythagoras (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Pythagoraani — accusative nom. Pythagoraani — gen. Pythagoraani genitive Pythagoraani — partitive Pythagorastani — inessive Pythagoraassani — elative Pythagoraastani — illative Pythagoraaseeni — adessive Pythagoraallani — ablative Pythagoraaltani — allative Pythagoraalleni — essive Pythagoraanani — translative Pythagoraakseni — abessive Pythagoraattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Pythagoraasi — accusative nom. Pythagoraasi — gen. Pythagoraasi genitive Pythagoraasi — partitive Pythagorastasi — inessive Pythagoraassasi — elative Pythagoraastasi — illative Pythagoraaseesi — adessive Pythagoraallasi — ablative Pythagoraaltasi — allative Pythagoraallesi — essive Pythagoraanasi — translative Pythagoraaksesi — abessive Pythagoraattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Pythagoraamme — accusative nom. Pythagoraamme — gen. Pythagoraamme genitive Pythagoraamme — partitive Pythagorastamme — inessive Pythagoraassamme — elative Pythagoraastamme — illative Pythagoraaseemme — adessive Pythagoraallamme — ablative Pythagoraaltamme — allative Pythagoraallemme — essive Pythagoraanamme — translative Pythagoraaksemme — abessive Pythagoraattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Pythagoraanne — accusative nom. Pythagoraanne — gen. Pythagoraanne genitive Pythagoraanne — partitive Pythagorastanne — inessive Pythagoraassanne — elative Pythagoraastanne — illative Pythagoraaseenne — adessive Pythagoraallanne — ablative Pythagoraaltanne — allative Pythagoraallenne — essive Pythagoraananne — translative Pythagoraaksenne — abessive Pythagoraattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Pythagoraansa — accusative nom. Pythagoraansa — gen. Pythagoraansa genitive Pythagoraansa — partitive Pythagorastaan Pythagorastansa — inessive Pythagoraassaan Pythagoraassansa — elative Pythagoraastaan Pythagoraastansa — illative Pythagoraaseensa — adessive Pythagoraallaan Pythagoraallansa — ablative Pythagoraaltaan Pythagoraaltansa — allative Pythagoraalleen Pythagoraallensa — essive Pythagoraanaan Pythagoraanansa — translative Pythagoraakseen Pythagoraaksensa — abessive Pythagoraattaan Pythagoraattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• Pythagoraan lause (“Pythagoras' theorem, Pythagorean theorem”)
• pythagoralainen

 

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Proper noun

Pȳthagorās m sg (genitive Pȳthagorae); first declension

1. Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Pȳthagorās
Genitive	Pȳthagorae
Dative	Pȳthagorae
Accusative	Pȳthagorān
Ablative	Pȳthagorā
Vocative	Pȳthagorā

Swedish

Proper noun

Pythagoras c (genitive Pythagoras)

1. Pythagoras

Related terms

• Pythagoras sats
• pythagoreisk