euripus

See also: Euripus

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin , from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Noun

eurīpus m (genitive eurīpī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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^[1]
• “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