Polypheme

See also: Polyphème

English

Etymology

From French Polyphème, from Latin Polyphemus, from Ancient Greek Πολύφημος (Polúphēmos).

Proper noun

Polypheme

1. (rare) Polyphemus.
   • 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:

     Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈpʰeː.me/, [pɔlʲʏˈpʰeːmɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.liˈfe.me/, [poliˈfɛːme]

Proper noun

Polyphēme m

1. vocative singular of Polyphēmos (“Polyphemus, a mythical one-eyed cyclops in Homer's Odyssey”)
2. vocative singular of Polyphēmus (“Polyphemus, a mythical one-eyed cyclops in Homer's Odyssey”)