• n. 女預言家；女巫；古希臘德爾菲的太陽神殿的女祭司

來自希臘語Pytho,Delphi神廟舊稱。-ess,表陰性。即德爾斐神廟女祭司，引申詞義女巫，女預言家。

pythoness (n.)

late 14c., "woman with the power of soothsaying," from Old French phitonise (13c.), from Late Latin pythonissa, used in Vulgate of the Witch of Endor (I Sam. xxviii:7), and often treated as her proper name, literally fem. of pytho "familiar spirit;" which ultimately is connected with the title of the prophetess of the Delphic Oracle, Greek pythia hiereia, from Pythios, an epithet of Apollo, from Pytho, older name of the region of Delphi (see python).

1. She gazed at him -- a pythoness in humour.

她直視著他 -- 活脫脫一個女巫的神氣.

來自互聯網