tripus

tripus englanniksi

1. A 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 ossicle of the apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.

4. three-footed seat, tripod

5. (rfc-sense) 1531, Procopius Caesariensis, ''De rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII'', page 262

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7. 1826, Børge Thorlacius, ''Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet'', main title (Schultz)