bathyscaphe

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WOTD – 28 January 2016

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bathyscaphe

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Alternative forms

• bathyscaph

Etymology

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Ancient Greek βᾰθῠ́ς (băthŭ́s)

Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-der.

Ancient Greek σκᾰ́πτω (skắptō)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)

Ancient Greek -η (-ē)

Ancient Greek σκᾰ́φη (skắphē)

French bathyscaphebor.

English bathyscaphe

Borrowed from French bathyscaphe. Analyzable as bathy- +‎ Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “little boat, skiff”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæθɪˌskeɪv/, /ˈbæθɪˌskæf/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧thy‧scaphe

Noun

bathyscaphe (plural bathyscaphes)

1. A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol.
   • 1972, Oceanology‎, volume 12, numbers 4–6, American Geophysical Union, page 931:

     The fact that the bathyscaphes are self-propelled makes it possible to use them to study the ocean microstructure in the horizontal, although the experiment should include temporal changes, which can be achieved either by using associated buoy stations or using a second suspended bathyscaphe.

   • 2001, Robert D. Ballard, Malcolm McConnell, Adventures in Ocean Exploration: From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood‎, page 216:

     It's ironic that when Piccard built his first bathyscaphe in the 1940s people assumed the revolutionary design had evolved from his famous stratospheric balloon. In fact, the reverse was true. In fact, Piccard's prototype bathyscaphe FNRS-2 (named for the Belgian national research foundation), which underwent sea trials in the Atlantic off Senegal in 1948, did possess all the attributes of a clumsy underwater balloon.

   • 2005, Eric G. Swedin, Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia, page 297:

     After World War II, engineers built specialized submarines called bathyscaphes to survive the intense pressures of the deep ocean. A pioneer in bathyscaphes was the Swiss-born Belgian physicist Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), who had set the world altitude record in a balloon in 1932. Having turned his attention to the sea, Piccard and his son, Jacques Piccard (1922– ), built a bathyscaphe called the Trieste after World War II.

Related terms

• bathy-
• bathysphere
• mesoscaphe
• scaphander

Translations

self-propelled deep-sea submersible

Armenian: բատիսկաֆ (hy) (batiskaf) Basque: batiskafo Bulgarian: батискаф m (batiskaf) Catalan: batiscaf (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 深潛器 / 深潜器 (shēnqiánqì) Czech: batyskaf (cs) m Dutch: bathyscaaf Estonian: batüskaaf Finnish: batyskafi French: bathyscaphe (fr) m German: Bathyscaph m, Bathyskaph m Greek: βαθυσκάφος (el) n (vathyskáfos) Hebrew: בתיסקף (he) Italian: batiscafo (it) m Japanese: バチスカーフ (ja) (bachisukāfu) Korean: 바스스카프 (baseuseukapeu) Norwegian: batyskaf Polish: batyskaf (pl) m Portuguese: batiscafo m Russian: батиска́ф (ru) m (batiskáf) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: батискаф m Roman: batiskaf (sh) m Slovak: batyskaf m Spanish: batiscafo m Swedish: batyskaf (sv) Tamil: நீர்முனை (nīrmuṉai) Ukrainian: батискаф m (batyskaf)

See also

• deep-submergence vehicle
• diving bell
• submarine
• submersible

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

bathyscaphe

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Etymology

Compound from Ancient Greek elements βᾰθῠ́ς (băthŭ́s, “deep”) +‎ σκᾰ́φη (skắphē, “little ship”). Coined by its inventor Auguste Piccard in the 1940's.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bathyscaphe m (plural bathyscaphes)

1. bathyscaphe

Related terms

• bathysphère
• mésoscaphe

Descendants

• → English: bathyscaphe
• → Portuguese: batiscafo
• → Spanish: batiscafo

See also

• sous-marin
• submersible

Further reading

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