tripudium

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin tripudium.

Noun

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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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

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  • Italian: tripudio (?)

See also

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References

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  • 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