euripe

From Middle French euripe, from Latin eurīpus, from Ancient Greek Εὔρῑπος (Eúrīpos, “Euripus”).

euripe (plural euripes)

1. (obsolete) A strait or channel of the sea.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 2, member 3:

     I will first see whether that relation of the friar of Oxford be true, concerning those northern parts under the Pole […] whether there be such four euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way […].

eurīpe

1. vocative singular of eurīpus