bathyscaphe

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French, from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathus, “deep”) + σκάφη (skaphē, “little ship”). Coined in 1940s by Auguste Piccard, the inventor of the bathyscaphe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbæθɪˌskeɪv/

Noun

Wikipedia bathyscaphe (plural bathyscaphes)

1. A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol

Related terms

• bathysphere
• mesoscaphe

See also

• diving bell
• submersible
• submarine
• deep submergence vehicle

Translations

self-propelled deep-sea submersible

• Armenian: բատիսկաֆ (hy) (batiskaf)
• Basque: batiskafo (eu)
• Bulgarian: батискаф (bg) (batiskaf) m
• Catalan: batiscaf (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 深潛器 (cmn), 深潜器 (cmn) (shēnqiánqì)

• Czech: batyskaf (cs) m
• Dutch: bathyscaaf (nl)
• Estonian: batüskaaf (et)
• Finnish: batyskafi (fi)
• French: bathyscaphe (fr) m
• German: Bathyscaph (de) m, Bathyskaph (de) m
• Greek: βαθυσκάφος (el) (vathiskáfos) n
• Hebrew: בתיסקף (he)

• Italian: batiscafo (it) m
• Japanese: バチスカーフ (ja) (bachisukāfu)
• Korean: 바스스카프 (ko) (baseuseukapeu)
• Norwegian: batyskaf (no)
• Polish: batyskaf (pl) m
• Portuguese: batiscafo (pt) m
• Russian: батискаф (ru) (batiskáf) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: батискаф (sh) m

  Roman: batiskaf (sh) m

• Spanish: batíscafo (es) m, batiscafo (es) m
• Swedish: batyskaf (sv)
• Ukrainian: батискаф (uk) (batyskaf) m

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathus, “deep”) + σκάφη (skaphē, “little ship”). Coined in 1940s by Auguste Piccard, the inventor of the bathyscaphe.

Noun

bathyscaphe m (plural bathyscaphes)

1. bathyscaphe

Related terms

• bathysphère
• mesoscaphe

See also

• sous-marin
• submersible