tripusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɹaɪpəs/
• 韻: -aɪpəs

名詞

tripus (plural tripodes)

1. (historical, 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.

   Synonym: tripod

2. (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: malleus, malleus Weberi

3. (Cambridge University, obsolete, rare, 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.

   Synonyms: tripos, bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, (equivalent at Oxford University) terrae filius

参照

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

アナグラム

• purist, spruit, stir up, uprist, upstir

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous).

発音

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

名詞

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)

使用する際の注意点

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

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• → 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, 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