python

See also: Python

English

Indian python (Python molurus)

Etymology

From Latin pȳthon, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from Πυθώ (Puthṓ), older name of Delphi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθɑn/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪθən, (General American) -aɪθɑn

Noun

python (plural pythons)

1. (zoology) A type of large constricting snake.
2. (slang, vulgar) A penis.

Hypernyms

• (zoology): snake

Hyponyms

• ball python
• black-headed python
• Burmese python (Python bivittatus)
• carpet python (Morelia spilota)
• diamond python (Morelia spilota spilota)
• Ramsay's python
• reticulated python (Malayapython reticulatus)
• royal python
• sand python
• water python
• woma python

Derived terms

• drain the python
• pig in the python
• pythoness
• pythonic
• pythonlike
• siphon the python
• syphon the python

Translations

constricting snake

• Albanian: piton (sq) m
• Arabic: أَصَلَة (ʔaṣala)
• Armenian: պիթոն (hy) (pitʻon)
• Basque: pitoi
• Belarusian: піто́н m (pitón)
• Binukid: bakesan
• Bulgarian: питон (bg) (piton)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pitó (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: krajta (cs) f
• Danish: pyton c
• Dinka: nyiëël (Rek dialect)
• Dupaningan Agta: iraw
• Dutch: python (nl) m
• Esperanto: pitono
• Finnish: pyton (fi)
• French: python (fr) m
• Galician: pitón f
• Georgian: პითონი (ṗitoni)
• German: Python (de) m, Pythonschlange (de) f
• Greek: πύθωνας (el) m (pýthonas)
• Hindi: अजगर (hi) m (ajgar), अजदहा (hi) m (ajadhā), अजदाह (hi) m (ajdāh), अजदर (hi) m (ajdar)
• Hungarian: piton (hu), óriáskígyó (hu)
• Ido: pitono (io)
• Irish: píotón m
• Italian: pitone (it) m
• Japanese: ニシキヘビ (ja) (nishiki-hebi), 錦蛇 (ja) (にしきへび, nishiki-hebi)
• Kannada: ಹೆಬ್ಬಾವು (kn) (hebbāvu)
• Kapampangan: bitin bitin sawa
• Khmer: ថ្លាន់ (km) (thlan), ពស់ថ្លាន់ (pŭəh thlan)
• Kikuyu: itarara class 5 (especially African rock python)
• Korean: 비단뱀 (bidanbaem)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pîton (ku)

• Latvian: pitons m
• Lithuanian: pitonas m, smauglys m
• Lun Bawang: menelen
• Luo: ng'ielo (especially African rock python), ng'ielno (especially African rock python)
• Macedonian: пито́н m (pitón), у́дав m (údav)
• Malay: ular sawa
• Malayalam: പെരുമ്പാമ്പ് (ml) (perumpāmpŭ), മലമ്പാമ്പ് (ml) (malampāmpŭ)
• Manchu: ᠵᠠᠪᠵᠠᠨ (jabjan)
• Manx: aarnieu traastey m
• Maori: paitana
• Mon: ကၠန် (mnw) (klɔn)
• Nyankole: oruziramere
• Pali: ajagara m
• Persian: پیتون (piton), پایتون (pâyton), شیبا (fa) (šibâ)
• Polish: pyton (pl) m
• Portuguese: pitão (pt) m
• Romanian: piton (ro) m, șarpe piton m
• Russian: пито́н (ru) m (pitón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пѝто̄н m, у̏да̄в m, бо̏а f

  Roman: pìtōn (sh) m, ȕdāv (sh) m, bȍa (sh) f

• Sicilian: pituni m
• Slovene: piton (sl) m
• Spanish: pitón (es) m
• Swahili: chatu (sw)
• Swedish: pytonorm (sv) c, pyton (sv) c
• Tagalog: sawa
• Tamil: மலைப்பாம்பு (ta) (malaippāmpu)
• Telugu: కొండచిలువ (te) (koṇḍaciluva)
• Thai: หลาม (lǎam), เหลือม (th) (lʉ̌ʉam)
• Tooro: enziramira class 9
• Tswana: tlhware (tn)
• Turkish: piton (tr)
• Ukrainian: піто́н m (pitón)
• Vietnamese: trăn (vi)
• Volapük: pütonasnek, püton
• Yoruba: ejo mọnamọna (ball python)
• Zulu: inhlwathi class 9/10

References

• Pythonidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pythonidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pythonidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• “python”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “python”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), “piton”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Anagrams

• Typhon, phyton, typhon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pythōn, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: py‧thon

Noun

python m (plural pythons, no diminutive)

1. python, constrictor of the family Pythonidae

Derived terms

• netpython
• rotspython
• tijgerpython

Descendants

• → Indonesian: piton

French

Etymology

From Latin python.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

python m (plural pythons)

1. python

Further reading

• “python”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• typhon

Interlingua

Noun

python (plural pythones)

1. python

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from Πυθώ (Puthṓ), older name of Delphi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpyː.tʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.t̪on]

Noun

pȳthōn m (genitive pȳthōnis, feminine pȳthōnissa); third declension

1. soothsayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pȳthōn	pȳthōnēs
genitive	pȳthōnos pȳthōnis	pȳthōnum
dative	pȳthōnī	pȳthōnibus
accusative	pȳthōna pȳthōnem	pȳthōnēs
ablative	pȳthōne	pȳthōnibus
vocative	pȳthōn	pȳthōnēs

References

• “python”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “python”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.