Ancient Greek

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

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
• «Καλυψώ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette