Καλυψώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from κᾰλῠ́πτω (kalúptō, “I hide”): “she who conceals”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.lyp.sɔ̌ː/ → /ka.lypˈso/ → /ka.lipˈso/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.lyp.sɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.lypˈso/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.lypˈso/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.lypˈso/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.lipˈso/

Noun

Κᾰλῠψώ • (Kalupsṓ) f (genitive Κᾰλῠψοῦς); third declension

1. Calypso
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.13–15:

     τὸν δ᾽ οἶον, νόστου κεχρημένον ἠδὲ γυναικός,
     νύμφη πότνι᾽ ἔρῡκε Καλυψώ, δῖα θεᾱ́ων,
     ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι, λιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι.

     [Odysseus] alone, longing for homecoming and his wife,
     the revered nymph Calypso, brightest of goddesses, detained
     in hollow caves, longing for him to be her husband.

Declension

Third declension of ἡ Κᾰλῠψώ; τῆς Κᾰλῠψοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κᾰλῠψώ hē Kalupsṓ
Genitive	τῆς Κᾰλῠψοῦς tês Kalupsoûs
Dative	τῇ Κᾰλῠψοῖ têi Kalupsoî
Accusative	τὴν Κᾰλῠψώ tḕn Kalupsṓ
Vocative	Κᾰλῠψοῖ Kalupsoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: Calypsō

References

• “Καλυψώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Καλυψώ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
• Καλυψώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Further reading

• Calypso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia