Πυθώ

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-ṓ, from *dʰewb- (“depths, hollow, deep, bottom”), a reference to the monsters who inhabited the caverns, but it has also been linked to πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Πῡθώ • (Pūthṓ) f (genitive Πῡθοῦς); third declension

  1. Pytho; the ancient name of Delphi
  2. Python, the monstrous snake said to have been slain by Pythian Apollo at Delphi

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Πῡθώ; τῆς Πῡθοῦς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Πῡθώ
hē Pūthṓ
Genitive τῆς Πῡθοῦς
tês Pūthoûs
Dative τῇ Πῡθοῖ
têi Pūthoî
Accusative τὴν Πῡθώ
tḕn Pūthṓ
Vocative Πῡθοῖ
Pūthoî
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Descendants

References

  • “Πυθώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Πυθώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Πυθώ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Πυθώ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
  1. ^ Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, Volume 25, p. 656
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