Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Euripides

EURIPIDES

Gender: Masculine

Other Scripts: Ευριπιδης (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: yoo-RIP-i-deez (English) [key]

Derived from the Greek elements ευ "good" and ‘ριπη (rhipe) "throw, swing". This was the name of a 5th-century BC Greek tragic poet.