Xantipʹpe or Xanthipʹpe (3 syl.).
Wife of the philosopher Socratēs. Her bad temper has rendered her name proverbial for a conjugal scold.
“Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,
As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
As Socrates’ Xanthippe, or a worse,
She moves me not.”
Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, i. 2.
