tripudium
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tri- + pes. See the old form tripodātiō, but compare with the possibly related Latin paveō, paviō, pudeō, repudium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [t̪rɪˈpʊd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [t̪riˈpuːd̪ium]
Noun
[edit]tripudium n (genitive tripudiī or tripudī); second declension
- a measured stamping, a leaping, jumping, dancing in religious solemnities; a solemn religious dance (performed in triple time)
- a war-dance
- (divination) a favorable omen (when the chickens ate so greedily that the food dropped from their mouths to the ground)
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]- Italian: tripudio (?)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
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- en:Dance
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- Latin terms prefixed with tri-
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- Latin nouns
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- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- la:Divination
- la:Dance
- la:Religion
- la:Three