different between reflux vs euripus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?.fl?ks/

Noun

reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)

1. The backwards flow of any fluid.
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     […] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]

2. (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
3. (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

reflux (third-person singular simple present refluxes, present participle refluxing, simple past and past participle refluxed)

1. To flow back or return.

   the refluxing tide

2. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin refluxus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r??fluks/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?fluks/

Noun

reflux m (plural refluxos)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Synonym: marea sortint

2. reflux

Related terms

• refluir

Further reading

• “reflux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fly/

Noun

reflux m (uncountable)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Antonym: flux

2. vicissitude
3. reflux

Romanian

Etymology

From French reflux.

Noun

reflux n (plural refluxuri)

1. reflux

Declension

English

Etymology

Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (eúripos); from ?? (eû, “well”) + ???? (rhip?, “rushing motion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j????p?s/

Noun

euripus (plural euripuses or euripi)

1. 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 Eubaea and Baeotia.
2. (by extension) A flux and reflux.

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Latin

Noun

eur?pus m (genitive eur?p?); second declension

1. narrow channel, strait
2. canal, conduit, aqueduct

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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