euripus

See also: Euripus

English[edit]

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

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.
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
  They have ordained that the provision of this establishment might be as stable as the earth on which it stands , and should not fluctuate with the Euripus of funds and actions

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

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