trivet

English

trivet, 19th century replica

Etymology

From Old English trefet, from Latin tripūs (“tripod”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪvɪt/

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
3. A weaver's knife. See trevat.

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Translations

stand with three short legs

• Armenian: կասկարա (hy) (kaskara)
• Burmese: ဖိုခုံလောက် (my) (hpuihkumlauk)
• Catalan: trespeus m
• Cebuano: sug-ang
• Finnish: kolmijalka
• French: trépied (fr), chevrette (fr)

• Macedonian: пирустија f (pirustija)
• Norman: terpid m (Guernsey)
• Portuguese: tripé (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: tronožac (sh), tronog (sh)
• Swedish: trefot c
• Welsh: trybedd f

stand to support hot dishes and protect the table

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

• Portuguese: descanso (pt) m
• Swedish: grytunderlägg n, karottunderlägg n

See also

• as right as a trivet
• coaster