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Πύθων

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πύθων Πύθωνος

Structure: Πυθων (Stem)

Etym.: cf. Puqw/

Sense

  1. Python
  2. of divination

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Πύθων Πύθωνε Πύθωνες
Genitive Πύθωνος Πυθώνοιν Πυθώνων
Dative Πύθωνι Πυθώνοιν Πύθωσιν*
Accusative Πύθωνα Πύθωνε Πύθωνας
Vocative Πύθων Πύθωνε Πύθωνες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "εὐήθεσ γάρ ἐστι καὶ παιδικὸν κομιδῇ τὸ οἰέσθαι τὸν θεὸν αὐτὸν ὥσπερ τοὺσ ἐγγαστριμύθουσ, Εὐρυκλέασ πάλαι νυνὶ δὲ Πύθωνασ; (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 9 2:8)
  • τί δ’ ἂν εἰή μυθωδέστερον ἢ Ἀπόλλων τοξεύων καὶ κολάζων Τιτυοὺσ καὶ Πύθωνασ καὶ ὁδεύων ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν εἰσ Δελφοὺσ καὶ γῆν πᾶσαν ἐπιών; (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 18:6)

Synonyms

  1. of divination

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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