Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Pythagoras

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PYTHAGORAS

GENDER: Masculine

USAGE: Ancient Greek

OTHER SCRIPTS: Πυθαγορας (Ancient Greek)

PRONOUNCED: pi-THAG-ər-əs (English) [key]

Meaning & History

Derived from Greek Πυθιος (Pythios), a name of Apollo, and αγορα (agora) "market". This was the name of a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician, the founder of a mystic order whose members believed that everything was made of numbers.

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