pythagoras
/paɪˈθæɡ.ə.ɹəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
name
A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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”"
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /paɪˈθæɡ.ə.ɹəs/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People, Mathematics.