calypso
See also: Calypso
English
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) enPR: ku̇lĭpʹsō, IPA(key): /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: kəlĭpʹsō, IPA(key): /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ
Etymology 1
editOriginally Trinidad English, an alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name Calypso.
Noun
editcalypso (countable and uncountable, plural calypsos or calypsoes)
- A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
- 1959, V. S. Naipaul, “B. Wordsworth”, in Miguel Street:
- 'How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?' I asked him one day.
- He said, 'You mean how I get money?'
When I nodded, he laughed in a crooked way.
He said, 'I sing calypsoes in the calypso season.'
'And that last you the rest of the year?'
'It is enough.'
- He said, 'You mean how I get money?'
- 'How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?' I asked him one day.
- 1959, V. S. Naipaul, “B. Wordsworth”, in Miguel Street:
Derived terms
editTranslations
edittype of music and dance
Verb
editcalypso (third-person singular simple present calypsos, present participle calypsoing, simple past and past participle calypsoed)
- (intransitive) To perform calypso.
Further reading
edit- Calypso music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
editFrom Latin, itself from Ancient Greek Καλυψώ (Kalupsṓ, “name of a sea nymph”)
Noun
editcalypso (countable and uncountable, plural calypsos or calypsoes)
- A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
- A light blue color. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- calypso:
Derived terms
editTranslations
editCalypso bulbosa
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Further reading
edit- Calypso (orchid) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
edit- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcalypso
- calypso (style of music)
Declension
editInflection of calypso (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | calypso | calypsot | |
genitive | calypson | calypsojen calypsoiden calypsoitten | |
partitive | calypsoa | calypsoja calypsoita | |
illative | calypsoon | calypsoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | calypso | calypsot | |
accusative | nom. | calypso | calypsot |
gen. | calypson | ||
genitive | calypson | calypsojen calypsoiden calypsoitten | |
partitive | calypsoa | calypsoja calypsoita | |
inessive | calypsossa | calypsoissa | |
elative | calypsosta | calypsoista | |
illative | calypsoon | calypsoihin | |
adessive | calypsolla | calypsoilla | |
ablative | calypsolta | calypsoilta | |
allative | calypsolle | calypsoille | |
essive | calypsona | calypsoina | |
translative | calypsoksi | calypsoiksi | |
abessive | calypsotta | calypsoitta | |
instructive | — | calypsoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
editNoun
editcalypso m (plural calypsos)
Further reading
edit- “calypso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English calypso.
Noun
editcalypso n (plural calypsouri)
Declension
editDeclension of calypso
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) calypso | calypsoul | (niște) calypsouri | calypsourile |
genitive/dative | (unui) calypso | calypsoului | (unor) calypsouri | calypsourilor |
vocative | calypsoule | calypsourilor |
Swedish
editNoun
editcalypso c
- calypso (type of music or dance)
- en glad calypso om våren
- a happy calypso in spring
Declension
editDeclension of calypso | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | calypso | calypson | calypsor | calypsorna |
Genitive | calypsos | calypsons | calypsors | calypsornas |
References
editCategories:
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪpsəʊ
- Rhymes:English/ɪpsəʊ/3 syllables
- English terms derived from Ibibio
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Trinidad and Tobago English
- en:Dances
- en:Musical genres
- en:Orchids
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish palvelu-type nominals
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Romanian terms borrowed from English
- Romanian terms derived from English
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian terms spelled with Y
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- sv:Dances
- sv:Musical genres