tripus
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin tripūs, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); doublet of tripod and teapoy. In the sense associated with Cambridge University, the Tripus is named after the three-legged stool on which he sat during the degree-awarding ceremony.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tripus (plural tripodes)
- (obsolete, rare, in the history of Cambridge University, capitalised when used as a title) A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
- (obsolete, rare) A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
- (zoology, in cypriniform fishes) The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.
Synonyms
[edit]- (tripos, prevaricator): bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, terrae filius (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos
- (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities): tripod
- (bone in fishes): malleus, malleus Weberi
References
[edit]- “‖tripus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
- The Century Dictionary Online
- Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister
- A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, →ISBN, →ISBN, p. 174
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[edit]Latin
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtri.puːs/, [ˈt̪rɪpuːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.pus/, [ˈt̪riːpus]
Noun
[edit]tripūs m (genitive tripodis); third declension
- three-footed seat, tripod
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- tripus (the tripod of the oracle at Delphi)
- 1826, Børge Thorlacius, Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet, main title (Schultz)
- Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1826, Børge Thorlacius, Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet, main title (Schultz)
Usage notes
[edit]- In post-Classical Latin, tripūs is sometimes treated as feminine.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | tripūs | tripodēs |
genitive | tripodis | tripodum |
dative | tripodī | tripodibus |
accusative | tripodem | tripodēs |
ablative | tripode | tripodibus |
vocative | tripūs | tripodēs |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: trípode
- → English: tripod, tripus
- → Finnish: tripodi
- → French: tripode
- → Galician: trípode
- → Hungarian: tripod
- → Italian: tripode
- → Spanish: trípode
Further reading
[edit]- “tripus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tripus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tripus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “tripus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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