piton

See also: Piton, pitón, píton, pîton, and Pitoń

English

ring piton

Etymology

Borrowed from French piton (nail).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiːˌtɒn/

Noun

piton (plural pitons)

  1. (climbing) A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).
    Coordinate terms: nut, chockstone, chock
    Hyponyms: bong, bugaboo, knifeblade

Translations

Verb

piton (third-person singular simple present pitons, present participle pitoning, simple past and past participle pitoned)

  1. (climbing) To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing.

Further reading

Anagrams


French

Etymology

Occitan pitt- + -on.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.tɔ̃/

Noun

piton m (plural pitons)

  1. nail (metal object)
    Synonym: clou
  2. spike, pick (especially for mountaineering)

Descendants

Further reading

Anagrams


Hungarian

Etymology

From scientific Latin python, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo[1], from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πυθώ (puthṓ, to rot, to decay).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpiton]
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ton

Noun

piton (plural pitonok)

  1. python (constricting snake)
    Synonym: óriáskígyó

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative piton pitonok
accusative pitont pitonokat
dative pitonnak pitonoknak
instrumental pitonnal pitonokkal
causal-final pitonért pitonokért
translative pitonná pitonokká
terminative pitonig pitonokig
essive-formal pitonként pitonokként
essive-modal
inessive pitonban pitonokban
superessive pitonon pitonokon
adessive pitonnál pitonoknál
illative pitonba pitonokba
sublative pitonra pitonokra
allative pitonhoz pitonokhoz
elative pitonból pitonokból
delative pitonról pitonokról
ablative pitontól pitonoktól
Possessive forms of piton
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pitonom pitonjaim
2nd person sing. pitonod pitonjaid
3rd person sing. pitonja pitonjai
1st person plural pitonunk pitonjaink
2nd person plural pitonotok pitonjaitok
3rd person plural pitonjuk pitonjaik

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French python.

Noun

piton m (plural pitoni)

  1. python
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French piton.

Noun

piton n (plural pitoane)

  1. piton (spike, wedge, or peg driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber))
Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǐtoːn/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ton

Proper noun

pìtōn m (Cyrillic spelling пѝто̄н)

  1. python (constricting snake)

Declension

References

  • piton” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pitóːn/

Noun

pitọ̑n m anim

  1. python (constricting snake)

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. pitón
gen. sing. pitóna
singular dual plural
nominative pitón pitóna pitóni
accusative pitóna pitóna pitóne
genitive pitóna pitónov pitónov
dative pitónu pitónoma pitónom
locative pitónu pitónih pitónih
instrumental pitónom pitónoma pitóni

Turkish

piton

Etymology

Borrowed from French python.

Noun

piton (definite accusative pitonu, plural pitonlar)

  1. python (constricting snake)

Venetian

Alternative forms

Noun

piton m (plural pitoni)

  1. turkey
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