Polypheme

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 55045234, 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.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈpʰeː.me/, [pɔlʲʏˈpʰeːmɛ]
• (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”)