Pythagorean Bedeutung / Pythagorean Übersetzung:
1540s, from Latin Pythagoreus “of or pertaining to Pythagoras” of Samos, Greek philosopher (6c. B.C.E.) said to have travelled to Egypt and Babylon, whose teachings included transmigration of the soul and vegetarianism (these are some of the commonest early allusions in Englisch).