Calliope

See also: calliope

Translingual

Siberian rubythroat, Calliope calliope

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē), the Muse of eloquence and poetry, in turn of κᾰλλῐ- (kalli-) + ὄψ (óps) “beautiful voice”. Introduced by English ornithologist John Gould in 1836.

Proper noun

Calliope f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Muscicapidae – rubythroats and close relatives.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Passeriformes – order; Passeri - suborder; Passerida - infraorder; Muscicapoidea - superfamily; Muscicapidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Calliope calliope (Siberian rubythroat) - type species; Calliope obscura (blackthroat), Calliope pectardens (firethroat), Calliope pectoralis (Himalayan rubythroat), Calliope tschebaiewi (Chinese rubythroat) - other species

References

• Calliope (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calliope on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Calliope on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gould, John (1836) The Birds of Europe. Volume 2‎^[1]

English

Etymology

From Latin Calliope, from Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē), from κᾰλλῐ- (kalli-, “beautiful”) + ὄψ (óps, “voice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kə.ˈlaɪ.ə.pi/, /kə.ˈliː.ə.pi/

Proper noun

Calliope

1. (Greek mythology) The Muse of eloquence and epic or heroic poetry; the mother of Orpheus with Apollo.
2. (astronomy) 22 Kalliope, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name.

Derived terms

• calliope
• Calliopean

Translations

the Muse of eloquence and epic

• Arabic: كاليوبي f (kalyawbi)
• Armenian: Կալլիոպե (hy) (Kalliope)
• Azerbaijani: Kalliopa
• Basque: Kaliope
• Belarusian: Каліё́па f (Kalijópa)
• Bulgarian: Калиопа f (Kaliopa)
• Catalan: Cal·líope f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡利俄佩 (Kǎlì'épèi)

• Czech: Kalliopé f
• Danish: Kalliope c
• Dutch: Kalliope f
• Esperanto: Kaliopo
• Estonian: Kalliope
• Finnish: Kalliope
• French: Calliope (fr) f
• Georgian: კალიოპე (ḳalioṗe)
• German: Kalliope (de) f
• Greek: Καλλιόπη (el) f (Kalliópi)

  Ancient: Καλλιόπη f (Kalliópē)

• Greenlandic: Kalliope
• Hebrew: קאליופה f
• Hungarian: Kalliopé (hu)
• Icelandic: Kallíópa f
• Indonesian: Kalliope
• Inuktitut: ᑲᓪᓕᐅᐱ (kalliopi)
• Italian: Calliope (it) f
• Japanese: カリオペー (Kariopē)
• Korean: 칼리오페 (Kalliope)
• Latin: Calliope f
• Ligurian: Calliope f
• Lithuanian: Kaliopė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Kalliope f

• Luxembourgish: Kalliope f
• Macedonian: Калиопа f (Kaliopa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kalliope f

  Nynorsk: Kalliope f

• Polish: Kaliopa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Calíope f
• Romanian: Calliope f
• Russian: Каллио́па (ru) f (Kalliópa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Калио̀па f

  Roman: Kaliòpa (sh) f

• Slovak: Kalliopé f, Kalliopa f
• Spanish: Calíope (es) f
• Swedish: Kalliope c
• Turkish: Kalliope
• Ukrainian: Калліо́па (uk) f (Kalliópa)

See also

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Calliope, from Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē).

Proper noun

Calliope

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]
2. (Greek mythology) the Muse of eloquence and epic or heroic poetry; the mother of Orpheus with Apollo
3. (astronomy) 22 Kalliope

Italian

Raffigurazione di Calliope – Depiction of Calliope

Etymology

From Latin Calliopē, from Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalˈli.o.pe/
• Rhymes: -iope
• Hyphenation: Cal‧lì‧o‧pe

Proper noun

Calliope f

1. (Greek mythology) Calliope, the Muse of eloquence and epic or heroic poetry
2. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Hypernyms

• musa

Derived terms

• calliope

Further reading

• Calliope on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Latin

Alternative forms

• Calliopēa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.o.peː/, [kälˈlʲiɔpeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.o.pe/, [kälˈliːope]

Proper noun

Calliopē f sg (genitive Calliopēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) The Muse Calliope, goddess and muse of epic poetry, or of poetry in general
   • See Calliopea for an alternative spelling and quotation from Ovid’s Fasti.

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Calliopē
Genitive	Calliopēs
Dative	Calliopae
Accusative	Calliopēn
Ablative	Calliopē
Vocative	Calliopē

Descendants

• Italian: Calliope