tripudium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tripudium. === 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 == === Alternative forms === tripodum === Etymology === A derivative of Proto-Italic *tripod- (“three-step dance”, literally “three-footed”); note the old form tripodum as well as tripodātiō. By surface analysis, tri- +‎ pēs +‎ -ium. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) However, compare with the possibly related Latin paveō, paviō, pudeō, repudium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [trɪˈpʊ.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [triˈpuː.di.um] === Noun === 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 ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== tripudiō ==== Descendants ==== Italian: tripudio (?) ==== See also ==== sonīvius === 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, 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