Triposとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪpɒs/

名詞

tripos (複数形 triposes)

1. (obsolete) A three-legged structure; a tripod.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.73:

     Thales sent the golden tripos, which the fishermen found and the oracle commanded to be “given to the wisest”, to Bias, Bias to Solon, etc.

   • 1697 [19 BC], Dryden, John, The Third Book of the Æneis, translation of Aeneid by Virgil, lines 122–124; republished in The Works of John Dryden, volume 5, University of California Press, 1988, →ISBN, page 421:

     Scarce had I said, He shook the holy Ground: / The Lawrels, and the lofty Hills around: / And from the Tripos rush'd a bellowing sound.

2. (Cambridge University) Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree.
   • 1891, Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers, Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, page 9:

     I'm seriously thinking of chucking my tripos and taking up the History Special.