tripus

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.

• enPR: trīʹpəs, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪpəs/

tripus (plural tripodes)

1. (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.
2. (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.
3. (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.

• (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

• “‖tripus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd 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

• purist, spruit, stir up, uprist, upstir

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪ.puːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.pus]

tripūs m (genitive tripodis); third declension

1. three-footed seat, tripod
   • (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense? (Procopius Caesariensis lived in the 6th century and wrote in Greek)) 1531, Procopius Caesariensis, De rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII, page 262

     Tripus ferrea ante regiã ſemper ſtare ſolebat...

     An iron tripod always used to stand in front of the palace...

2. 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)

• In post-Classical Latin, tripūs is sometimes treated as feminine.

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: trípode
• → English: tripod, tripus
• → Finnish: tripodi
• → French: tripode
• → Galician: trípode
• → Hungarian: tripod
• → Italian: tripode
• → Spanish: trípode

• “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, 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