tripod

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/

• Audio (AU):

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• Hyphenation: tri‧pod

Noun

tripod (plural tripods)

1. A three-legged stand or mount.

   Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs.

2. (slang) A man with macrophallism.

Translations

a three-legged stand or mount

• Armenian: եռոտանի (hy) (eṙotani), (put under kettles) կասկարա (hy) (kaskara)
• Catalan: trípode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三腳架／三脚架 (zh) (sānjiǎojià), 三脚架 (zh) (sānjiǎojià)

• Czech: stativ m, trojnožka f
• Dutch: statief (nl) n, driepoot (nl) m
• Esperanto: tripiedo, stativo
• Finnish: tripodi
• French: trépied (fr) m
• Galician: trípode m, trepia f, trespés m, trébede f
• German: Dreifuß m, Stativ (de) n, Dreibein (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρίπους m (trípous)

• Hebrew: חצובה (he) f (chatsubá)
• Hindi: तिपाई (hi) f (tipāī)
• Hungarian: tripod
• Icelandic: þrífótur m
• Ido: tripedo (io), stativo (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: branra m
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• Italian: treppiedi m, cavalletto (it) m
• Japanese: 三脚架 (さんきゃくか, sankyakuka)
• Korean: 아리쇠 (arisoe), 다리쇠 (darisoe), 삼발이 (sambari)
• Latin: vāra (la) f
• Latvian: trijkājis m
• Macedonian: три́ножник m (trínožnik), трино́галка f (trinógalka), стати́в m (statív) (in technical equipment)
• Manx: treechoshagh m
• Plautdietsch: Dreefoot m
• Polish: statyw (pl) m, trójnóg (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

  Roman: trònožac (sh) m

• Spanish: trípode (es) m or c
• Tagalog: tungko
• Welsh: trybedd f
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

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

   I tripodded after my 6-mile run.

Translations

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

• Russian: приня́ть (ru) (prinjátʹ) позу (ru) (pozu) треножника (ru) (trenožnika)
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See also

• bipod
• monopod
• trivet

Anagrams

• torpid