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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: ku̇lĭpʹsō, IPA(key): /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: kəlĭpʹsō, IPA(key): /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ
Etymology 1
[edit]Originally 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
[edit]calypso (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]type of music and dance
Verb
[edit]calypso (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
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Calypso_bulbosa_%281%29.jpg/220px-Calypso_bulbosa_%281%29.jpg)
From Latin, itself from Ancient Greek Καλυψώ (Kalupsṓ, “name of a sea nymph”)
Noun
[edit]calypso (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]Calypso 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
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calypso
- calypso (style of music)
Declension
[edit]Inflection 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
[edit]Noun
[edit]calypso m (plural calypsos)
Further reading
[edit]- “calypso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English calypso.
Noun
[edit]calypso n (plural calypsouri)
Declension
[edit]Declension 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
[edit]Noun
[edit]calypso c
- calypso (type of music or dance)
- en glad calypso om våren
- a happy calypso in spring
Declension
[edit]Declension of calypso | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | calypso | calypson | calypsor | calypsorna |
Genitive | calypsos | calypsons | calypsors | calypsornas |
References
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- Rhymes:English/ɪpsəʊ
- Rhymes:English/ɪpsəʊ/3 syllables
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms derived from Latin
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- 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
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- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish palvelu-type nominals
- French lemmas
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- French countable nouns
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- Romanian terms borrowed from English
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- sv:Dances
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