pythoness

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Definition von pythoness im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi

But at Delphi the sun-god's spiritual bride was known in the days of Herodotus as the Pythoness, and later as Pythia.

Alternative capitalization of Pythoness

A female python

On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.

A female soothsayer

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece

a witch with powers of divination

(Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles

Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch

Silbentrennung

py·thon·ess

Synonyme

pythia

Etymologie

[ 'pI-th&-n&s, 'pi- ] (noun.) 14th century. From Late Latin pythonissa, from Ancient Greek Πυθία. Compare Pythia.