piton

See also: Piton, pitón, píton, pîton, and Pitoń

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French piton (“nail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːˌtɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːtɒn

Noun

piton (plural pitons)

1. (climbing) A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).

   Hyponyms: bong, knifeblade, RURP

   Coordinate terms: nut, chockstone, chock

Translations

a spike, wedge, or peg (climbing)

Bulgarian: клин (bg) m (klin) Chinese: Mandarin: 岩釘 / 岩钉 (yándīng) Finnish: haka (fi), kiila (fi) German: Felshaken m Hungarian: jégszeg (hu), falkapocs (hu) Portuguese: pitão (pt) m Romanian: piton (ro) n Russian: ска́льный крюк m (skálʹnyj krjuk)

Verb

piton (third-person singular simple present pitons, present participle pitoning, simple past and past participle pitoned)

1. (climbing) To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing.

Further reading

• piton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pinto, Point, opt in, opt-in, pinot, pinto, point, potin

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from French python

Noun

piton

1. python (constricting snake)

Declension

Declension of piton

	singular	plural
nominative	piton	pitonlar
genitive	pitonnıñ	pitonlarnıñ
dative	pitonğa	pitonlarğa
accusative	pitonnı	pitonlarnı
locative	pitonda	pitonlarda
ablative	pitondan	pitonlardan

References

• “piton”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

French

Etymology

From Occitan pitt- +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Noun

piton m (plural pitons)

1. nail (metal object)

   Synonym: clou

2. spike, pick (especially for mountaineering)

Descendants

• → English: piton
• → Portuguese: pitão
• → Romanian: piton

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• point