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

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
    1. 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 606515358, [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.
  2. (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

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Czech

Proper noun

Pythagoras m

  1. Pythagoras

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpytɑɡorɑs/, [ˈpyt̪ɑˌɡo̞rɑs̠]
  • Syllabification(key): Py‧tha‧go‧ras

Noun

Pythagoras

  1. Pythagoras

Declension

Inflection of Pythagoras (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation)
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
instructive
abessive Pythagoraatta
comitative
Possessive forms of Pythagoras (type vieras)
possessor singular plural
1st person Pythagoraani Pythagoraamme
2nd person Pythagoraasi Pythagoraanne
3rd person Pythagoraansa

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Proper noun

Pȳthagorās m sg (genitive Pȳthagorae); first declension

  1. Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Pȳthagorās
Genitive Pȳthagorae
Dative Pȳthagorae
Accusative Pȳthagorān
Ablative Pȳthagorā
Vocative Pȳthagorā

Swedish

Proper noun

Pythagoras c (genitive Pythagoras)

  1. Pythagoras
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