euripus

See also: Euripus

English

Etymology

Latin , from Ancient Greek εὔριπος (eúripos); from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ῥιπή (rhipḗ, “rushing motion”).

Noun

euripus (plural euripuses or euripi)

  1. 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 Eubaea and Baeotia.
  2. (by extension) A flux and reflux.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for euripus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

eurīpus m (genitive eurīpī); second declension

  1. narrow channel, strait
  2. canal, conduit, aqueduct

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative eurīpus eurīpī
Genitive eurīpī eurīpōrum
Dative eurīpō eurīpīs
Accusative eurīpum eurīpōs
Ablative eurīpō eurīpīs
Vocative eurīpe eurīpī

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
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