tripus

Etymology
from, from ;. 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.

Noun

 * 1)  A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  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

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) three-footed seat, tripod
 * 2) * 1531, Procopius Caesariensis, De rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII, page 262
 * "la"

- Tripus ferrea ante regiã ſemper ſtare ſolebat...


 * 1)  the tripod of the oracle at Delphi
 * 2) * 1826, Børge Thorlacius, Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet, main title (Schultz)
 * "la"

- Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet

Usage notes

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