python

See also: Python

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

python

Wikipedia

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):

  (file)

• 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 Telugu: కొండచిలువ (te) (koṇḍaciluva) Thai: หลาม (lǎam), เหลือม (th) (lʉ̌ʉam) 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

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

python

Wikipedia ^nl

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

French

Etymology

From Latin python.

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

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/, [ˈpyːt̪ʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ton/, [ˈpiːt̪on]

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.