English Explanatory Dictionary

Pythagoras

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
  2. Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
  3. Ellipsis of Pythagoras' theorem.

Pronunciation

/paɪˈθæɡ.ə.ɹəs/ /pɪˈθæɡ.ə.ɹəs/ en-us-Pythagoras.ogg /ˈpɑj.t̪həˌɡo.rəs/ /pəjˈt̪ɑɡᵊ.rəs/ /pəjˈt̪ɔɡᵊ.rəs/

Word forms

Pythagoras

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Related words

Archimedes Aristotle Plato Socrates

Derived words

Pythagoras cup Pythagoras' theorem Pythagorean Pythagoreanism Pythagorean triple theorem of Pythagoras

Translations

Albanian: Pitagora Arabic: فِيثَاغُورَس Arabic: فيثاغورس Armenian: Պյութագորաս Old Armenian: Պիւթագորաս Asturian: Pitágoras Azerbaijani: Pifaqor Basque: Pythagoras Bengali: পিথাগোরাস Bulgarian: Питагор Catalan: Pitàgores Chinese Mandarin: 畢達哥拉斯 /毕达哥拉斯 Czech: Pythagoras Danish: Pythagoras Dutch: Pythagoras Esperanto: Pitagoro Estonian: Pythagoras Finnish: Pythagoras French: Pythagore Galician: Pitágoras Georgian: პითაგორა German: Pythagoras Greek: Πυθαγόρας Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας Hebrew: פיתגורס Hungarian: Püthagorasz Icelandic: Pýþagóras Ido: Pitagoro Indonesian: Pythagoras Irish: Píotágarás Italian: Pitagora Japanese: ピタゴラス Japanese: ピュタゴラス Javanese: Pythagoras Khmer: ពីតាករ Korean: 피타고라스 Latin: Pythagoras Latvian: Pitagors Lithuanian: Pitagoras Low German: Pythagoras Luxembourgish: Pythagoras Macedonian: Питагора
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