"tripus" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹaɪpəs/ Forms: tripodes [plural]
enPR: trīʹpəs Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin tripūs, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); doublet of tripod and teapoy. 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. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Unadapted borrowing}} Unadapted borrowing, {{bor|en|la|tripūs}} Latin tripūs, {{der|en|grc|τρίπους}} Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous), {{doublet|en|tripod|teapoy|nocap=1}} doublet of tripod and teapoy Head templates: {{en-noun|tripodes}} tripus (plural tripodes)
  1. (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, prevaricator. Tags: obsolete, rare Categories (topical): History, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome Synonyms (bone in fishes): malleus, malleus Weberi Synonyms (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities): tripod
    Sense id: en-tripus-en-noun-sCrcvtyP Disambiguation of Ancient Greece: 62 17 22 Disambiguation of Ancient Rome: 65 12 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 7 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 61 7 26 3 4 Disambiguation of 'bone in fishes': 62 22 16 Disambiguation of 'three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities': 47 26 26
  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. Tags: obsolete, rare
    Sense id: en-tripus-en-noun-i-4nVwOU
  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. Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-tripus-en-noun-y3UQVkgw Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, terrae filius (english: equivalent at Oxford University), tripos

Inflected forms

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