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Translingual

**Python** reticulatus Category:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20reticulatus at postprandial rest

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Category:Translingual terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#PYTHON Category:Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek#PYTHON Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).

Proper noun

Python mCategory:Translingual lemmas#PYTHON Category:Translingual proper nouns#PYTHON Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#PYTHON Category:Pages with entries#PYTHON Category:Pages with 8 entries#PYTHON

A taxonomic genus within the family Pythonidae – pythons, very large constricting snakes of the Old World tropics.Category:mul:Taxonomic names (genus)#PYTHON

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida – subclass; Lepidosauromorpha – infraclass; Lepidosauria – superorder; Squamata – order; Henophidia – infraorder; Pythonidae – family; Pythoninae Category:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subfamily)#Pythoninae – subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Python molurus – type species; Python anchietaeCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20anchietae, Python bivittatusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20bivittatus, Python breitensteiniCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20breitensteini, Python brongersmaiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20brongersmai, Python curtusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20curtus, Python kyaiktiyoCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20kyaiktiyo, Python natalensisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20natalensis, Python regiusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20regius, Python sebaeCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20sebae – other extant species; †Python europaeusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Python%20europaeus – extinct species

References

Python (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Python on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Python (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Python at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Python at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Python at Animal Diversity Web
Python at Paleobiology Database

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Category:English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#PYTHON Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PYTHON Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).

The programming language is named after Monty Python.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

PythonCategory:English lemmas#PYTHON Category:English proper nouns#PYTHON Category:English uncountable nouns#PYTHON Category:English entries with incorrect language header#PYTHON Category:Pages with entries#PYTHON Category:Pages with 8 entries#PYTHON

(Greek mythology Category:en:Greek mythology#PYTHON) The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
- 1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11:
  Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
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- 2000, Otar Lordkipanidze, Phasis: The River and City in Colchis, page 70:
  It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python coiled round the omphalos. […] Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.⁴¹³ Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
  Category:English terms with quotations#PYTHON
- 2005, M. A. Dwight, Taylor Lewis, Grecian and Roman Mythology, page 183:
  Python, says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent Python being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by Python is understood the ruin of the waters; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.
  Category:English terms with quotations#PYTHON
(computing Category:en:Computing#PYTHON) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.

Derived terms

Translations

Greek mythology

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French: Python (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#PYTHON
German: Python (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#PYTHON
Greek:
Ancient Greek: Πῡ́θων m (Pū́thōn)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#PYTHON
Inuktitut: ᐲᑐᓐ (piiton)Category:Terms with Inuktitut translations#PYTHON
Italian: Python mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#PYTHON
Latin: Pȳthōn mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#PYTHON
Marathi: पाय्थन (pāythan)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#PYTHON
Polish: Pyton mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#PYTHON
Portuguese: Piton mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#PYTHON
Spanish: Python mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#PYTHON

A programming language

Noun

Python (plural Pythons)Category:English lemmas#PYTHON Category:English nouns#PYTHON Category:English countable nouns#PYTHON Category:English entries with incorrect language header#PYTHON Category:Pages with entries#PYTHON Category:Pages with 8 entries#PYTHON

(informal Category:English informal terms#PYTHON) Any member of the comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin.
John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.
Category:English terms with usage examples#PYTHON

Anagrams

Typhon, phyton, typhon

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French

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpyː.tɔn/Category:German 2-syllable words#PYTHON Category:German terms with IPA pronunciation#PYTHON
Audio: (file)
Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#PYTHON

Noun

Python m (strong, genitive Pythons, plural Pythons)Category:German lemmas#PYTHON Category:German nouns#PYTHON Category:German entries with incorrect language header#PYTHON Category:German masculine nouns#PYTHON Category:Pages with entries#PYTHON Category:Pages with 8 entries#PYTHON or
Python f (genitive Python, plural Pythons)Category:German lemmas#PYTHON Category:German nouns#PYTHON Category:German entries with incorrect language header#PYTHON Category:German feminine nouns#PYTHON Category:Pages with entries#PYTHON Category:Pages with 8 entries#PYTHON

python (snake)

Usage notes

The masculine is more strictly standard, but the feminine is fairly common (after Schlange and most other words for snakes).

Declension

Declension of Python [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Python	die	Pythons
genitive	eines	des	Pythons	der	Pythons
dative	einem	dem	Python	den	Pythons
accusative	einen	den	Python	die	Pythons

Declension of Python [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Python	die	Pythons
genitive	einer	der	Python	der	Pythons
dative	einer	der	Python	den	Pythons
accusative	eine	die	Python	die	Pythons