Caliban

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Given Name CALIBAN

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Literature
PRONOUNCED: KAL-ə-ban
EDIT STATUS:
CONTRIBUTOR: Annie on 9/30/2006
LAST EDITOR: SeaHorse15 on 12/30/2011  [revision history]

Meaning & History

From a version of the Spanish word canibal "cannibal", with -n- and -l- interchanged, found in Hakluyt's 'Voyages' (1599). Shakespeare created this name for the savage, deformed slave of Prospero in his play 'The Tempest' (1611). It was given to one of Uranus' moons.