python

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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.

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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

python (plural pythons)

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

• (zoology): snake

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

• “python”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “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

• Typhon, phyton, typhon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tɔn/

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• Hyphenation: py‧thon

python m (plural pythons)

1. python, constrictor of the family Pythonidae

• netpython
• rotspython
• tijgerpython

From Latin python.

• IPA^(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

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python m (plural pythons)

1. python

• “python”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• typhon

python (plural pythones)

1. python

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.

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

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

1. soothsayer

Third-declension noun.