Pythagoras

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From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /paɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/, /paɪˈθæɡ.ɚ.əs/

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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, [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”

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Socrates

• “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.

Pythagoras m anim (related adjective Pythagorův)

1. Pythagoras

From Ancient Greek Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpytɑɡorɑs/, [ˈpyt̪ɑ̝ˌɡo̞rɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -orɑs
• Hyphenation^(key): Py‧tha‧go‧ras

Pythagoras

1. Pythagoras

   Pythagoraan kolmikko ― Pythagorean triple

   Pythagoraan kolmio ― Pythagorean triangle

   Pythagoraan vakio ― Pythagoras' constant

From Ancient Greek Πῡθᾰγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Pȳthagorās m sg (genitive Pȳthagorae); first declension

1. Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician.

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

Pythagoras c (genitive Pythagoras)

1. Pythagoras

• Pythagoras sats
• pythagoreisk