Pythagorean

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Pȳthagorēus (“pertaining to Pythagoras”) +‎ -an. Compare Pythagoric.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /pɪˌθaɡəˈɹiːən/

Noun[edit]

Pythagorean (plural Pythagoreans)

  1. A follower of Pythagoras; someone who believes in or advocates Pythagoreanism. [from 16th c.]
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 268:
      Plato could still speak the language of archaic myth. He could speak it, because he was a Pythagorean, and myth was their technical language.
    • 2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137:
      Plato clearly distinguished the Orphics and the Pythagoreans.

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Adjective[edit]

Pythagorean (comparative more Pythagorean, superlative most Pythagorean)

  1. Pertaining to Pythagoras or his philosophy. [from 16th c.]
  2. Following the lifestyle advocated by the Pythagoreans; specifically, vegetarian. [from 17th c.]

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terms derived from Pythagorean

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