Rhipaean
name of a fabulous range of mountains in the far North, Alcm. 58 (leg. Ῥιπᾶν), Arist. Mete. 350b7 (for S. OC 1248, v. ῥιπή I): hence Ῥιπαῖος, α, ον, Rhipaean, ὄρη Hellanic. Fr. 187 (b) J., Damastes Fr. 1 J., Str. 7.3.1, 6.
The corpus record
Ῥῖπαι
*ripai · αἱ
Rhipaean
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.