Εὔριπος

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

 

• IPA^(key): /ěu̯.riː.pos/ → /ˈe.βri.pos/ → /ˈe.vri.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ěu̯.riː.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈew.ri.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.βri.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vri.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vri.pos/

Proper noun

Εὔρῑπος • (Eúrīpos) m (genitive Εὐρῑ́που); second declension

1. Euripus Strait

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Εὔρῑπος; τοῦ Εὐρῑ́που (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Εὔρῑπος ho Eúrīpos
Genitive	τοῦ Εὐρῑ́που toû Eurī́pou
Dative	τῷ Εὐρῑ́πῳ tôi Eurī́pōi
Accusative	τὸν Εὔρῑπον tòn Eúrīpon
Vocative	Εὔρῑπε Eúrīpe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Εὐρῑπῐ́δης (Eurīpídēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Εύριπος (Évripos)
• Latin: Eurīpus
• Ottoman Turkish: اغریبوز (Eğriboz), آغریبوز (Ağrıboz)
  • Turkish: Eğriboz
  • → Armenian: Էյրիպօզ (Ēyripōz), Էղրիպօզ (Ēġripōz)

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 (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • euripus idem, page 284.
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010