Εὔριπος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὔρῑπος (eúrīpos, “any strait or narrow sea, where the flux and reflux is violent”), from ῥιπή (rhipḗ, “swing or force with which anything is thrown”), from ῥίπτω (rhíptō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ěu̯.riː.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈew.ri.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.βri.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.vri.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.vri.pos/
Proper noun
Εὔρῑπος • (Eúrīpos) m (genitive Εὐρῑ́που); second declension
- Euripus Strait
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Εὔρῑπος ho Eúrīpos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Εὐρῑ́που toû Eurī́pou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Εὐρῑ́πῳ tôi Eurī́pōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Εὔρῑπον tòn Eúrīpon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Εὔρῑπε Eúrīpe | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Εὐρῑπῐ́δης (Eurīpĭ́dēs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Εὔριπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Εὔριπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Εὔριπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Εὔριπος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- euripus idem, page 284.
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010