Pythagoras
See also: Pýþagóras
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /paɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/
- (US) IPA(key): /pɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/ or IPA(key): /paɪˈθæ.ɡɚ.əs/
Proper noun
Pythagoras
- A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
- Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Gratiano:
O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
- Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
- (mathematics, colloquial) Ellipsis of Pythagoras' theorem.
- Serge Lang and Gene Murrow (1988) Geometry, →ISBN, page 203: “By Pythagoras, we find the length of the third side, |AB|2 = (2a)2 – a2 = 4a2 – a2 = 3a2”
Derived terms
Translations
Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
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See also
Further reading
- “Pythagoras”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Pythagoras”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Pythagoras”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Czech
Declension
Declension of Pythagoras (sg-only hard masculine animate irreg-stem)
singular | |
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nominative | Pythagoras |
genitive | Pythagora |
dative | Pythagorovi |
accusative | Pythagora |
vocative | Pythagore |
locative | Pythagorovi |
instrumental | Pythagorem |
Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpytɑɡorɑs/, [ˈpyt̪ɑ̝ˌɡo̞rɑ̝s̠]
- Syllabification(key): Py‧tha‧go‧ras
Declension
Inflection of Pythagoras (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Pythagoras | — | ||
genitive | Pythagoraan | — | ||
partitive | Pythagorasta | — | ||
illative | Pythagoraaseen | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Pythagoras | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Pythagoras | — | |
gen. | Pythagoraan | |||
genitive | Pythagoraan | — | ||
partitive | Pythagorasta | — | ||
inessive | Pythagoraassa | — | ||
elative | Pythagoraasta | — | ||
illative | Pythagoraaseen | — | ||
adessive | Pythagoraalla | — | ||
ablative | Pythagoraalta | — | ||
allative | Pythagoraalle | — | ||
essive | Pythagoraana | — | ||
translative | Pythagoraaksi | — | ||
abessive | Pythagoraatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
- Pythagoraan lause (“Pythagoras' theorem, Pythagorean theorem”)
- pythagoralainen
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).
Proper noun
Pȳthagorās m sg (genitive Pȳthagorae); first declension
- Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Pȳthagorās |
Genitive | Pȳthagorae |
Dative | Pȳthagorae |
Accusative | Pȳthagorān |
Ablative | Pȳthagorā |
Vocative | Pȳthagorā |
Swedish
Related terms
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