calypso

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

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

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.

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.'

• calypsonian
• calypso-like
• gospelypso
• soca

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

1. (intransitive) To perform calypso.

• Calypso music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

calypso (Calypso bulbosa)

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

Wikispecies

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:  

• Calypso (orchid) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• cosplay

calypso m (plural calypsos)

1. calypso

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

Borrowed from English calypso.

calypso n (plural calypsouri)

1. calypso

calypso c

1. calypso (type of music or dance)

   en glad calypso om våren

   a happy calypso in spring

• calypso in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• calypso in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)