Πυθώ

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Proper noun

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Πῡθώ (Pūthṓf (genitive Πῡθοῦς); third declension

  1. Pytho; the ancient name of Delphi
  2. Python, the monstrous snake said to have been slain by Pythian Apollo at Delphi

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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
  1. ^ Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, Volume 25, p. 656