euripus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin euripus, from Ancient Greek εὔριπος (eúripos); from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ῥιπή (rhipḗ, “rushing motion”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jəˈɹaɪpəs/ === Noun === 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. === References === “euripus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὔριπος (eúripos). === Noun === 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 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → English: euripus === 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