different between pythoness vs python

English

Etymology 1

See Pythoness.

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness
2. A female soothsayer

Translations

Etymology 2

python +? -ess

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

1. A female python.
   • 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 56,

     On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.

Translations

English

Etymology

Latin p?thon, from Ancient Greek ????? (Púth?n), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from ???? (Puth?), older name of Delphi.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pa???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pa????n/

Noun

python (plural pythons)

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

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “python”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “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

References

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

Anagrams

• Typhon, phyton, typhon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pyth?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (Púth?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi.t?n/
• Hyphenation: py?thon

Noun

python m (plural pythons)

1. python, constrictor of the family Pythonidae

Derived terms

• netpython
• rotspython
• tijgerpython

French

Etymology

From Latin python

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.t??/

Noun

python m (plural pythons)

1. python

Further reading

• “python” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• typhon

Interlingua

Noun

python (plural pythones)

1. python

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (Púth?n), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from ???? (Puth?), older name of Delphi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?py?.t?on/, [?py?t???n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.ton/, [?pi?t??n]

Noun

p?thon m (genitive p?th?nis, feminine p?th?nissa); third declension

1. soothsayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.