euripus

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/jəˈɹaɪpəs/

noun

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.

OriginLatin eurīpus ← Ancient Greek εὔριπος →
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Meanings

euripus1

nouneuripus (plural euripuses or euripi)

plural euripuses · plural 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 Euboea and Boeotia.
  2. broadlyA flux and reflux.

    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

    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

Euripus2

proper noun
  1. abbreviationShort for Euripus Strait.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekεὔριπος
  2. Latineurīpus
  3. Englisheuripus

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

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Chicago

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