Calypso
Meaning
Calypso (a nymph who ruled the island of Ogygia, on whose shores Odysseus was shipwrecked, whereupon she detained and entertained him for seven years, bearing him the two sons Nausithoüs and Nausinoüs)
Concepts
fairy slipper
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
[kaˈlyp.soː]
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κᾰλῠψώ (Kălŭpsṓ).
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