different between tripod vs tripus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trip?s, tripodis, from Ancient Greek ??????? (trípous); equivalent to tri- +? -pod. Doublet of tripus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?a?p?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?a?p?d/
• Hyphenation: tri?pod

Noun

tripod (plural tripods)

1. A three-legged stand or mount.

1. (science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).

   Synonyms: fighting-machine, Thing

2. (slang) A man with macrophallism.

Translations

Verb

tripod (third-person singular simple present tripods, present participle tripoding, simple past and past participle tripoded)

1. (intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.

Translations

See also

• bipod
• monopod
• trivet

Anagrams

• torpid

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tripod]
• Hyphenation: tri?pod

Noun

tripod (plural tripodok)

1. tripod (three-legged stand or mount)

   Synonym: háromlábú állvány

Declension

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin trip?s, from Ancient Greek ??????? (trípous); doublet of tripod. 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

• enPR: tr??p?s, IPA^(key): /?t?a?p?s/

Noun

tripus (plural tripodes)

1. (obsolete, rare, in the historical 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.

Synonyms

• (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

• “?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

Anagrams

• purist, spruit, stir up, uprist, upstir

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (trípous).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pu?s/, [?t???pu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pus/, [?t??i?pus]

Noun

trip?s m (genitive tripodis); third declension

1. three-footed seat, tripod
   • 1531, Procopius Caesariensis, De rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII, page 262

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)

Usage notes

• In post-Classical Latin, trip?s is sometimes treated as feminine.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

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

Further reading

• 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, 1883–1887)
• tripus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers