Tripus
Pronunciation
- RP enPR: trīʹpəs, IPA: /ˈtɹaɪpəs/
Origin
From the Latin tripÅ«s and its etymon the Ancient Greek Ï„Ïίπους; compare 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.
Full definition of tripus
Noun
tripus
(plural tripodes)- (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, prævaricator.
- (obsolete, rare, Greek and Roman antiquities) 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.
- (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, prævaricator) bachelor of the stool, prævaricator, terræ filius equivalent at Oxford University, tripos
- (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities) tripod
- (bone in fishes) malleus, malleus Weberi