bathyscaphe

A bathyscaphe, the w:Bathyscaphe TriesteTrieste, being hoisted from the water, circa 1958–1959

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • Borrowed from French bathyscaphe, from Ancient Greek βαθύς + σκάφη. Coined in the 1940s by Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), the inventor of the bathyscaphe.

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