Meanings
- rarePolyphemus.
Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus.
1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, →OCLC
Origin
- Ancient GreekΠολύφημος
- LatinPolyphemus
- FrenchPolyphème
- EnglishPolypheme
From French Polyphème, from Latin Polyphemus, from Ancient Greek Πολύφημος (Polúphēmos).
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Polypheme. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polypheme
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