# piton
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French piton (“nail”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiːˌtɒn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

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

#### Translations
### Verb

piton (third-person singular simple present pitons, present participle pitoning, simple past and past participle pitoned)
* (climbing) To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing.

### Further reading

* piton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Pinto, Point, opt in, opt-in, pinot, pinto, point, potin

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

Borrowed from French python

### Noun

piton
* python (constricting snake)

#### Declension
### References

* “piton”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## French
### Etymology

From Occitan pitt- +‎ -on.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi.tɔ̃/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

piton m (plural pitons)
* nail (metal object)
    Synonym: clou
* spike, pick (especially for mountaineering)

#### Descendants

* → English: piton
* → Portuguese: pitão
* → Romanian: piton

### Further reading

* “piton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* point

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From scientific Latin python, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpiton]
* Hyphenation: pi‧ton
* Rhymes: -on

### Noun

piton (plural pitonok)
* python (constricting snake)
    Synonym: óriáskígyó

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ 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

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

piton m (plural pitons)
* python

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French python.

#### Noun

piton m (plural pitoni)
* python

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French piton.

#### Noun

piton n (plural pitoane)
* piton (spike, wedge, or peg driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber))

##### Declension
### Further reading

* piton in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pǐtoːn/
* Hyphenation: pi‧ton

### Proper noun

pìtōn m (Cyrillic spelling пѝто̄н)
* python (constricting snake)

#### Declension
### References

* “piton” in Hrvatski jezični portal

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pitóːn/

### Noun

pitọ̑n m anim
* python (constricting snake)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “piton”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], French python, from Latin pȳthon, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn).

### Noun

piton (definite accusative pitonu, plural pitonlar)
* python (constricting snake)

#### Declension
## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* pitón

### Noun

piton m (plural pitoni)
* turkey