tripus

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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.

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, prevaricator.
(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.
(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.

(tripos, prevaricator): bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, terrae filius (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos
(three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities): tripod
(bone in fishes): malleus, malleus Weberi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous).

tripūs m (genitive tripodis); third declension

three-footed seat, tripod
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  Tripus ferrea ante regiã ſemper ſtare ſolebat...
  An iron tripod always used to stand in front of the palace...
tripus (the tripod of the oracle at Delphi)
- 1826, Børge Thorlacius, Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet, main title (Schultz)
  Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)