tripudium
English
Noun
tripudium (plural tripudia)
- (historical) A solemn religious dance of the Ancient Romans, performed in triple time.
- A form of divination based on the observation of birds feeding.
Latin
Etymology
From Latin ter + pes. See the old form tripodātiō, but compare with the possibly related Latin paveō, paviō, pudeō, repudium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [t̪rɪˈpʊd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [t̪riˈpuːd̪ium]
Noun
tripudium n (genitive tripudiī or tripudī); second declension
- a measured stamping, a leaping, jumping, dancing in religious solemnities; a solemn religious dance
- a war-dance
- a favorable omen (when the chickens ate so greedily that the food dropped from their mouths to the ground)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | 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
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