Pythagorean noun & adjective. [pʌɪ,Ɵagǝ'ri:ǝn] Also (earlier) Pythagorian [pʌɪƟa'gɔ:rɪǝn]. M16.
[from Latin Pythagoreus, -ius from Greek Puthagoreios, from personal name Puthagoras Pythagoras: see below, -AN, -EAN.]
A. noun. A follower of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (fl. 6th cent. BC); transf. a person whose doctrine or practice agrees with that attributed to Pythagoras, esp. regarding belief in the transmigration of souls. M16.
b. adjective.
1. Of or pertaining to Pythagoras or his philosophical system or school. L16.

2. Music. Designating a diatonic scale of eight notes, or interval of this scale, attributed to Pythagoras, and based on fifths. L17.

■ Pythagoreanism noun the Pythagorean philosophy E18.

[TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲