euripe
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French euripe, from Latin eurīpus, from Ancient Greek Εὔρῑπος (Eúrīpos, “Euripus”).
Noun
euripe (plural euripes)
- (obsolete) A strait or channel of the sea.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by 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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