Pythagoreanism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English Pythagorean Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Pythagoreanism From Pythagorean + -ism.
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(uncountable) The esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers.
Only two Greek philosophies, Pythagoreanism and neo-Platonism, might be called basically religious. Even early Pythagoreanism prior to 450 B.C. had a strong religious strain.
1987, Edward George Weltin, Athens and Jerusalem: An Interpretative Essay on Christianity and Classical Culture, Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 71:
- (uncountable) Vegetarianism.
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Translations (11)
it pitagorismo (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · pl pitagoreizm (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · bg питагорейство (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · pt Pitagorismo (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · el Πυθαγορισμός (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · cs pythagorejství (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · cs pythagoreismus (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · ru пифагореи́зм (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · fi pythagoralaisuus (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · grc Πῡθᾰγορῐσμός (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers) · it pitagoreismo (beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers)