tripes

English

Noun

tripes

1. plural of tripe

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, priest, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stripe

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Asturian

Noun

tripes

1. plural of tripa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁip/

Noun

tripes f pl (plural only)

1. tripe (food)

Derived terms

• tripes à la mode de Caen

Further reading

• “tripes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• esprit, pétris, pister, prîtes

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Latin

Alternative forms

• trēspēs (Late Latin)

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +‎ pēs (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.peːs/, [ˈt̪rɪpeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.pes/, [ˈt̪riːpes]

Adjective

tripēs (genitive tripedis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. Having three feet; three-footed.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	tripēs			tripedēs	tripedia
Genitive	tripedis			tripedium
Dative	tripedī			tripedibus
Accusative	tripedem	tripēs		tripedēs	tripedia
Ablative	tripedī			tripedibus
Vocative	tripēs			tripedēs	tripedia

Noun

tripēs m (genitive tripedis); third declension

1. tripod

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tripēs	tripedēs
Genitive	tripedis	tripedum
Dative	tripedī	tripedibus
Accusative	tripedem	tripedēs
Ablative	tripede	tripedibus
Vocative	tripēs	tripedēs

Descendants

• ⇒ Late Latin: trēspēs
  • → Galician: trespés
  • ⇒ Italian: trespolo
  • Sicilian: trèspiti
• French: trépied
• Galician: trepia
• Italian: treppiede
• Norman: terpid (Guernsey)
• → Old English: trefet
  • → Middle English: trevet
    • → English: trivet
• → Welsh: trybedd

References

• “tripes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tripes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tripes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Middle English

Noun

tripes

1. plural of tripe

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Middle French

Etymology

Plural of tripe

Noun

tripes f pl

1. guts; innards
2. tripe (food)
3. (humorous) stomach of a person