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English
Etymology
Latin , from Ancient Greek εὔριπος (eúripos); from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ῥιπή (rhipḗ, “rushing motion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
euripus (plural euripuses or euripi)
- A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows with violence, like the ancient firth of this name between Euboea and Boeotia.
- (by extension) A flux and reflux.
References
Latin
Noun
eurīpus m (genitive eurīpī); second declension
- narrow channel, strait
- canal, conduit, aqueduct
- (in particular) the water-filled trench that ran around the track of the Roman circus or ran down along the centre of the racing track
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “euripus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “euripus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- euripus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “euripus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “euripus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “euripus”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “euripus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “euripus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin