calypso

calypso

See also: Calypso

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ku̇lĭpʹsō, IPA^(key): /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/

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• (US) enPR: kəlĭpʹsō, IPA^(key): /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ

Etymology 1

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

calypso (countable and uncountable, plural calypsos or calypsoes)

1. 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.'

Derived terms

• calypsonian
• calypso-like
• gospelypso
• soca

Translations

type of music and dance

Catalan: calipso Esperanto: kalipso Italian: calipso m Romanian: calipso n Slovak: kalypso n Spanish: calipso m Swedish: calypso (sv) c

Verb

calypso (third-person singular simple present calypsos, present participle calypsoing, simple past and past participle calypsoed)

1. (intransitive) To perform calypso.

Further reading

• Calypso music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

calypso (Calypso bulbosa)

From Latin, itself from Ancient Greek Καλυψώ (Kalupsṓ, “name of a sea nymph”)

Wikispecies

Noun

calypso (countable and uncountable, plural calypsos or calypsoes)

1. A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
2. A light blue color. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   calypso:  

Further reading

• Calypso (orchid) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• cosplay

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French

Noun

calypso m (plural calypsos)

1. calypso

Further reading

• “calypso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English calypso.

Noun

calypso n (plural calypsouri)

1. calypso

Declension

Declension of calypso

	singular		plural
	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

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Swedish

Noun

calypso c

1. calypso; a type of music or dance

Declension

Declension of calypso
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	calypso	calypson	calypsor	calypsorna
Genitive	calypsos	calypsons	calypsors	calypsornas