trivet

trivet, 19th century replica

English

Etymology

Old English trefet, from Latin tripes, ‘tripod’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtrɪvɪt/

Noun

trivet (plural trivets)

1. a stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire
   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

     They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.

2. a stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster

Translations

stand with three short legs

• Armenian: կասկարա (hy) (kaskara)
• Finnish: kolmijalka (fi)
• French: trépied (fr), chevrette (fr)
• Guernésiais: terpid m

• Serbo-Croatian: tronožac (sh), tronog (sh)
• Swedish: trefot (sv) c
• Welsh: trybedd (cy) f

stand to support hot dishes and protect the table

• Finnish: pannunalunen (fi)
• French: dessous-de-plat (fr) m

• Swedish: grytunderlägg (sv) n, karottunderlägg (sv) n

See also

• as right as a trivet