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語源 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.

名詞

calypso (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 calypsos または 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.'

派生語

• calypsonian
• calypso-like
• gospelypso
• soca

動詞

calypso (三人称単数 現在形 calypsos, 現在分詞 calypsoing, 過去形および過去分詞形 calypsoed)

1. (intransitive) To perform calypso.

Further reading

• Calypso music on Wikipedia.

語源 2

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

名詞

calypso (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 calypsos または 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?)

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Further reading

• Calypso (orchid) on Wikipedia.

参照

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

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