euripe

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French euripe, from Latin eurīpus, from Ancient Greek Εὔρῑπος (Eúrīpos, Euripus).

Noun

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euripe (plural euripes)

  1. (obsolete) A strait or channel of the sea.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3:
      I will first see whether that relation of the friar of Oxford be true, concerning those northern parts under the Pole [] whether there be such four euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way […].

Latin

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Noun

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eurīpe

  1. vocative singular of eurīpus