tripod

See also: Tripod

English

A camera tripod (sense 1)

A horde of Martian tripods (sense 2) attacking houses, in a 1906 illustration to The War of the Worlds.

Etymology

PIE word
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Borrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- +‎ -pod. Doublet of tripus and teapoy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -aɪpɑd, -aɪpɒd, -ɒd
• Hyphenation: tri‧pod

Noun

tripod (plural tripods)

2. A three-legged stand or mount.

   Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs.

4. (science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).

   Synonyms: fighting-machine, Thing

5. (slang) A man with macrophallism.

Derived terms

• tripod grasp

 

Translations

a three-legged stand or mount

• Albanian: trekëmbësh (sq) m
• Armenian: եռոտանի (hy) (eṙotani), (put under kettles) կասկարա (hy) (kaskara)
• Belarusian: трыно́га f (trynóha), трыно́жнік m (trynóžnik), штаты́ў m (štatýŭ)
• Bengali: টিপাই (bn) (ṭipai)
• Bulgarian: трино́жник m (trinóžnik), трино́га (bg) f (trinóga), стати́в (bg) m (statív)
• Catalan: trípode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三腳架／三脚架 (zh) (sānjiǎojià)

• Coptic: ⲧⲣⲓⲡⲟⲥ (tripos)
• Czech: stativ m, trojnožka (cs) f, třínožka f
• Danish: stativ n
• Dutch: statief (nl) n, driepoot (nl) m
• Esperanto: tripiedo, stativo
• Estonian: statiiv
• Finnish: tripodi
• French: trépied (fr) m
• Galician: trípode m, trepia f, trespés m, trébede f
• German: Dreifuß (de) m, Stativ (de) n, Dreibein (de) n, Tripod m
• Greek: πυροστιά (el) f (pyrostiá), τρίποδας (el) m (trípodas)

  Ancient: τρίπους m (trípous)

• Hebrew: חֲצוּבָה (he) f (khatsuvá)
• Hindi: तिपाई (hi) f (tipāī)
• Hungarian: tripod (hu)
• Icelandic: þrífótur m
• Ido: tripedo (io), stativo (io)
• Indonesian: kaki tiga (id), tripod (id)
• Irish: branra m
• Italian: treppiedi m, cavalletto (it) m, tripode (it) m
• Japanese: 三脚架 (ja) (さんきゃくか, sankyakuka), トライポッド (toraipoddo)
• Korean: 아리쇠 (arisoe), 다리쇠 (darisoe), 삼발이 (sambari), 삼각대(三脚臺) (ko) (samgakdae), 트라이포드 (teuraipodeu)
• Latin: vāra (la) f
• Latvian: trijkājis m
• Lithuanian: trikojis m
• Macedonian: триножник m (trinožnik), триногалка f (trinogalka), стати́в m (statív) (in technical equipment)
• Manx: treechoshagh m
• Maori: waetoru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stativ n

  Nynorsk: stativ n

• Ottoman Turkish: سه‌پا (sehpa)
• Persian: سه‌پایه (se-pâye)
• Plautdietsch: Dreefoot m
• Polish: statyw (pl) m, trójnóg (pl) m, tripod (pl) m
• Portuguese: tripé (pt) m
• Russian: трено́га (ru) f (trenóga), трено́жник (ru) m (trenóžnik), штати́в (ru) m (štatív)
• Sanskrit: त्रिपाद (sa) m (tripāda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тро̀ножац m, тро̀ног m

  Roman: trònožac (sh) m, trònog (sh) m

• Slovak: statív m, trojnožka f
• Slovene: trinožnik m, stativ (sl) m
• Spanish: trípode (es) m or c
• Swedish: stativ (sv) n
• Tagalog: tungko
• Thai: ขาตั้งกล้อง (kǎa-dtâng-glɔ̂ng)
• Turkish: tripod, sehpa (tr)
• Ukrainian: трині́жок m (trynížok), трині́жка f (trynížka), штати́в m (štatýv)
• Urdu: تپائی f (tipāī)
• Welsh: trybedd f
• Yiddish: דרײַפֿוס m (drayfus)

Verb

tripod (third-person singular simple present tripods, present participle tripoding, simple past and past participle tripoded)

1. (intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.

   I tripodded after my 6-mile run.

2. (entomology, intransitive) Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.

Translations

(intransitive) to enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress

• Russian: приня́ть по́зу трено́жника pf (prinjátʹ pózu trenóžnika)

See also

• bipod
• monopod
• trivet

Anagrams

• torpid

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtripod]
• Hyphenation: tri‧pod

Noun

tripod (plural tripodok)

1. tripod (three-legged stand or mount)

   Synonym: háromlábú állvány

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tripod	tripodok
accusative	tripodot	tripodokat
dative	tripodnak	tripodoknak
instrumental	tripoddal	tripodokkal
causal-final	tripodért	tripodokért
translative	tripoddá	tripodokká
terminative	tripodig	tripodokig
essive-formal	tripodként	tripodokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tripodban	tripodokban
superessive	tripodon	tripodokon
adessive	tripodnál	tripodoknál
illative	tripodba	tripodokba
sublative	tripodra	tripodokra
allative	tripodhoz	tripodokhoz
elative	tripodból	tripodokból
delative	tripodról	tripodokról
ablative	tripodtól	tripodoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tripodé	tripodoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tripodéi	tripodokéi

Possessive forms of tripod
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tripodom	tripodjaim
2nd person sing.	tripodod	tripodjaid
3rd person sing.	tripodja	tripodjai
1st person plural	tripodunk	tripodjaink
2nd person plural	tripodotok	tripodjaitok
3rd person plural	tripodjuk	tripodjaik

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tripod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.pɔt/
• Rhymes: -pɔt
• Hyphenation: tri‧pod

Noun

tripod (plural tripod-tripod, first-person possessive tripodku, second-person possessive tripodmu, third-person possessive tripodnya)

1. tripod: a three-legged stand or mount.

   Synonym: kaki tiga

Further reading

• “tripod” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.