python /とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpaɪθən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈpaɪˌθɑn/
• 韻: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪθən, (General American) -aɪθɑn

名詞

python (plural pythons)

1. (zoology) Any of the family Pythonidae of nonvenomous constrictor snakes.
2. (slang, vulgar) A penis.

上位語

• (zoology): snake

下位語

派生語

参照

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

Further reading

• “python”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “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, Self-published: Xlibris, →ISBN

アナグラム

• Typhon, phyton, typhon

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpyː.tʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpiː.ton]

名詞

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

1. soothsayer

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

• “python”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “python”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.