Definitions for euripus

euripus eu·ri·pus

Spelling: [yoo-rahy-puh s, yuh-]
IPA: /yʊˈraɪ pəs, yə-/

Euripus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in euripus (eiprsuu).

Definitions for euripus

noun

  1. a strait, especially one in which the flow of water is violent.

Origin of euripus

1595-1605; Latin eurīpus Greek eúrīpos (applied especially to the strait between Euboea and Boeotia, equivalent to eu- eu- + -rīpos rusher, akin to rhīpḗ rush

Examples for euripus

He remarks, "the sea-port, although separated from the island by the narrow strait of euripus, is styled its wing."

It was near the euripus, within Bœotia and on the borders of Phokia.

euripus, ū-rī′pus, n. an arm of the sea with strong currents: the water-channel between the arena and cavea of a Roman hippodrome.

Riches are incertayne, and therefore Eschines compares them to euripus, which ebbes and flowes oftentymes in a day.

Opposite Bœotia, from which it is separated by the strait named euripus, Eubœa, the most extensive of all; 76 geog.

Whan fortune Fortune is as inconstant as the ebb and flow of euripus.

No longer therefore is there the sound either of birds or of the sea, but silence of the winds reigns about this euripus.

The euripus, so famous for the death of Aristotle, alternately absorbs and rejects the water seven times in twenty-four hours.

The great men of the land have as many turns in their course as the euripus or the Missouri.

Salganeus is a place situated near the euripus, upon a height.

Word Value for euripus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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