trivet

English

A replica of a 19th-century trivet

Alternative forms

• trevet

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪ.vɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪvɪt

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 coaster.
3. A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.

   Synonyms: trevat, trevette, truvat

Derived terms

• trivet table

 

Translations

stand with three short legs

• Armenian: կասկարա (hy) (kaskara)
• Bulgarian: пирости́я f (pirostíja), трино́жник m (trinóžnik)
• Burmese: ဖိုခုံလောက် (my) (hpuihkumlauk)
• Catalan: trespeus (ca) m
• Cebuano: sug-ang
• Finnish: kolmijalka (fi)
• French: trépied (fr) m
• Galician: trepia f, trespés m
• Greek: πυροστιά (el) f (pyrostiá)
• Hungarian: háromlábú állvány
• Macedonian: пирустија f (pirustija)
• Middle English: trevet
• Norman: terpid m (Guernsey)
• Portuguese: tripé (pt) m
• Russian: тага́н (ru) m (tagán), трено́жник (ru) m (trenóžnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тро̀ножац m, тро̀ног m

  Roman: trònožac (sh) m, trònog (sh) m

• Swedish: trefot c
• Turkish: üçayak (tr)
• Welsh: trybedd f

stand to support hot dishes and protect the table

• Finnish: pannunalunen
• French: dessous-de-plat (fr) m
• Hungarian: edényalátét (hu)
• Portuguese: descanso (pt) m
• Russian: подста́вка (ru) f (podstávka)
• Swedish: grytunderlägg n, karottunderlägg n
• Turkish: nihale (tr)

See also

• right as a trivet
• coaster

Middle English

Noun

trivet

1. Alternative form of trevet

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trivet n

1. definite singular of triv