English
euripus
Euripus comes from Latin eurīpus ‘narrow channel, strait’, and goes back to Ancient Greek εὔριπος.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEεὔριποςeúripos
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeurīpus‘narrow channel, strait’
- Englishearliest quotation 1790euripus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEεὔριποςeúripos
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeurīpus‘narrow channel, strait’
- Englishearliest quotation 1790euripus
Earliest quotation: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France: “They have ordained that the provision of this establishment…”
A compound of εὖ ‘well’ + ῥιπή ‘rushing motion’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- ‘good’
Proto-Hellenic *ehu- ‘good’
Ancient Greek ἐΰς ‘good’
Ancient Greek εὖ ‘well’
Proto-Indo-European *wreyp-
Ancient Greek ῥῑ́πτω ‘to throw’
Ancient Greek ῥιπή ‘rushing motion’
Every English word from Ancient Greek εὔριπος
Today it means
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.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek εὔριπος / euripus