tripod

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A three-legged stand or mount.
2. A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
3. (slang) A man with macrophallism.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
2. (intransitive) Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.

Concetti

cavalletto

treppiede

treppiedi

tripode

sinonimi

trivet

teapoy

foot

🦶

support

easel

trestle

tribrach

three legs

shear-legs

three-legged stand

three-way support

base

pot-stand

crowfoot

sawhorse

stand

three-legged

Traduzioni

trípode

trépied

Stativ

Dreifuß

τρίποδο

tripé

statief

driepoot

Dreibein

τριπόδι

tripode

dreibeinig

tripode

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈtɹaɪpɑd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

PIE word
*tréyes
Borrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus and teapoy.