tripudium

English

Etymology

From Latin tripudium.

Noun

tripudium (plural tripudia)

1. (historical) A solemn religious dance of the Ancient Romans, performed in triple time.
2. A form of divination based on the observation of birds feeding.

Latin

Alternative forms

• tripodum

Etymology

From tri- +‎ pes. See the old form tripodātiō, but compare with the possibly related Latin paveō, paviō, pudeō, repudium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [t̪rɪˈpʊd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [t̪riˈpuːd̪ium]

Noun

tripudium n (genitive tripudiī or tripudī); second declension

1. a measured stamping, a leaping, jumping, dancing in religious solemnities; a solemn religious dance (performed in triple time)
2. a war-dance
3. (divination) a favorable omen (when the chickens ate so greedily that the food dropped from their mouths to the ground)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tripudium	tripudia
genitive	tripudiī tripudī1	tripudiōrum
dative	tripudiō	tripudiīs
accusative	tripudium	tripudia
ablative	tripudiō	tripudiīs
vocative	tripudium	tripudia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: tripudio (?)

See also

• sonīvius

References

• “tripudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tripudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tripudium 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)
• tripudium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tripudium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tripudium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin