Pytho
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== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From Ancient Greek Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ, “(the city of) Pytho”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpyː.tʰoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpiː.to]
=== Proper noun ===
Pȳthō f sg (genitive Pȳthūs); fourth declension
(historical) The city of Pytho.
Albius Tibullus, 'Albii Tibulli elegiae', lib. 2, cap. 3, num. 27; in: Catullus[,] Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris, 1921, page 262f. with a translation into English by J. P. Postgate:
Delos ubi nunc, Phoebe, tua est, ubi Delphica Pytho?
Where, Phoebus, is thy Delos now, and where thy Delphian Pytho ?
==== Inflection ====
Fourth-declension noun (all cases except the genitive singular in -ō), with locative, singular only.
==== Related terms ====
Pȳthia
pȳthicus
pȳthius
pȳthon
==== Descendants ====
Italian: Pito
=== References ===
“Pytho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Pytho”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1284.
Lucanus, de bello civili, lib. 5, num. 134; in: Lucanus. Bellum civile. Der Bürgerkrieg. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Wilhelm Ehlers., 2nd edition, 1978, page 198f. (has "Python")
Lucanus, de bello civili, lib. 5, num. 134; in: Lucan with an English translation by J. D. Duff; The Civil War Books I–X (Phrasalia), 1962, page 248f. (has "Python")