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• trepālium

語源

From tripālis (“composed of three stakes”) +‎ -ium. Possibly a calque of Byzantine Greek τριπάσσαλον (tripássalon), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) +‎ πάσσαλος (pássalos, “peg”).

名詞

tripālium n (genitive tripāliī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. tentative torture instrument consisting of three stakes
   • 578 CE, Aunacharius Autissiodorensis, Concilium Antissiodorense (Council of Auxerre) Canon XXXIII:

     Non licet presbytero, nec diacono, ad trepalium, ubi rei torquentur, stare.

     It is not permitted for a priest, nor a deacon, to stand close to a trepalium, where the guilty are tortured.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生した語

• Old French: travail (“device for detaining horses whilst they are shod or armoured”)
  • French: travail
    • → English: travois
• Spanish: trabajo
• Portuguese: trabalho
• Vulgar Latin: *tripāliāre (see there for further descendants)

参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “trĭpalium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 292

Further reading

• "tripalium", 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)