Charybdis
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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charybdis
- A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
- 1837, L E L, “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 85:
- I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.
- (Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
- Any dangerous whirlpool.
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
- …that night, wee ſailed merrily by the Maſcarenas, a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes…
- 1832, James Bell, A system of geography, popular and scientific:
- The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients.
- 1842 Schiller, Friedrich poem Der Taucher (written in 1797) published in English in Blackwood's Magazine volume 52
- Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave / Casts roaringly up the charybdis again…
Derived terms
Translations
Greek mythological monster
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Further reading
Danish
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Charybdis
- Charybdis (monster)
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʰaˈryb.dis/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈrib.dis/,
Proper noun
Charybdis f sg (genitive Charybdis); third declension
- Charybdis
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Charybdis |
| genitive | Charybdis |
| dative | Charybdī |
| accusative | Charybdim Charybdin |
| ablative | Charybdī |
| vocative | Charybdis |
References
- “Charybdis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Charybdis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Charybdis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Charybdis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung