Πυθώ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πυθών (Puthṓn)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pyː.tʰɔ̌ː/ → /pyˈθo/ → /piˈθo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pyː.tʰɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈtʰo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈθo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈθo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈθo/

Proper noun

Πῡθώ • (Pūthṓ) f (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

Third declension of ἡ Πῡθώ; τῆς Πῡθοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πῡθώ hē Pūthṓ
Genitive	τῆς Πῡθοῦς tês Pūthoûs
Dative	τῇ Πῡθοῖ têi Pūthoî
Accusative	τὴν Πῡθώ tḕn Pūthṓ
Vocative	Πῡθοῖ Pūthoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras)
• Πυθόδωρος (Puthódōros)
• Πυθόπολις (Puthópolis)
• Πῡθόθεν (Pūthóthen)
• Πῡθοῖ (Pūthoî)
• Πῡθοῖδε (Pūthoîde)
• Πῡθοκτόνος (Pūthoktónos)
• Πῡθων (Pūthōn)
• Πῡ́θῐον (Pū́thion)
• Πῡ́θῐος (Pū́thios)
• Πῡ́θῐᾰ (Pū́thia)
• Πῡθῐ́ᾱ (Pūthíā)

 

Descendants

• Latin: Pȳthō, Pȳthius, Pȳthia
• English: Python, Pythian, Pythia

References

• “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