Charybdis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪbdɪs/

Proper noun

Charybdis

1. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 85:

     I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.

2. (Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
3. A general term for any dangerous whirlpool.
   • 1638: Herbert, Sir Thomas, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     …that night, wee ſailed merrily by the Maſcarenas, a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes…

   • 1832 Bell, James A system of geography, popular and scientific

     The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients.

   • 1842 Schiller, Friedrich poem Der Taucher (written in 1797) published in English in Blackwood's Magazine volume 52

     Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave / Casts roaringly up the charybdis again…

Derived terms

• between Scylla and Charybdis
• Charybdian
• charybdotoxin

Translations

Greek mythological monster

• Armenian: Քարիբդա (hy) (Kʿaribda)
• Czech: Charybda f
• Danish: Charybdis
• French: Charybde (fr) f
• German: Charybdis (de) f
• Greek: Χάρυβδις (el) f (Cháryvdis), Χάρυβδη (el) f (Cháryvdi)

  Ancient: Χάρυβδις f (Khárubdis)

• Greenlandic: Karybdis
• Hungarian: Kharübdisz
• Inuktitut: ᖃᕆᑉᑎᔅ (qariptis)
• Italian: Cariddi f
• Japanese: カリュブディス (Karyubudisu)

• Latin: Charybdis f
• Polish: Charybda (pl) f
• Portuguese: Caríbdis f
• Russian: Хари́бда (ru) f (Xaríbda)
• Spanish: Caribdis f
• Swahili: Kharibdi

See also

• Scylla

Further reading

• Charybdis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Alternative forms

• Karybdis
• Kharybdis

Proper noun

Charybdis

1. Charybdis (monster)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰaˈryb.dis/, [kʰäˈrʏbd̪ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈrib.dis/, [käˈribd̪is]

Proper noun

Charybdis f sg (genitive Charybdis); third declension

1. Charybdis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Charybdis
Genitive	Charybdis
Dative	Charybdī
Accusative	Charybdim Charybdin
Ablative	Charybdī
Vocative	Charybdis

References

• “Charybdis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Charybdis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Charybdis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Charybdis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung