python

See also: Python

English

a python () constricting a goat.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪθɑːn/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

python (plural pythons)

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

Derived terms

• carpet python
• diamond python
• pig in the python
• pythoness
• pythonic
• pythonlike
• reticulated python
• syphon the python

 

Translations

constricting snake

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պիթոն (hy) (pitʻon)
• Basque: pitoi
• Belarusian: піто́н m (pitón)
• Binukid: bakesan
• Catalan: pitó 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)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Kikuyu: itarara class 5 (especially African rock python)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 비단뱀 (bidanbaem)
• Kurdish:
• 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)
• Manx: aarnieu traastey m
• Nyankole: oruziramere
• Persian: پیتون (piton), پایتون (pāyton), شیبا (fa) (šībā)
• 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

• Slovene: piton (sl) m
• Spanish: pitón (es) m
• Swahili: chatu (sw)
• Swedish: pytonorm (sv) c, pyton (sv) c
• Tagalog: sawa
• Telugu: కొండచిలువ (te) (koṇḍaciluva)
• Thai: หลาม (lǎam), เหลือม (th) (lʉ̌ʉam)
• Turkish: piton (tr)
• Ukrainian: піто́н m (pitón)
• Vietnamese: trăn (vi)
• Volapük: pütonasnek, püton

References

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

Anagrams

• Typhon, phyton, typhon

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: py‧thon

Noun

python m (plural pythons)

1. python, constrictor of the family Pythonidae

Derived terms

• netpython
• rotspython
• tijgerpython

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

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

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Interlingua

Noun

python (plural pythones)

1. python

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Latin

Etymology

From the name of a snake slain at Delphi

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpyː.tʰon/, [ˈpyːt̪ʰɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ton/, [ˈpiːt̪on]

Noun

pȳthon f (genitive pȳthōnis); third declension

1. soothsayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pȳthon	pȳthōnēs
Genitive	pȳthōnis	pȳthōnum
Dative	pȳthōnī	pȳthōnibus
Accusative	pȳthōnem	pȳthōnēs
Ablative	pȳthōne	pȳthōnibus
Vocative	pȳthon	pȳthōnēs