Latin

Noun

tripudium n ‎(genitive tripudiī or tripudī); second declension

1. a measured stamping, a leaping, jumping, dancing in religious solemnities; a solemn religious dance
2. a dance
3. a favorable omen (when the chickens ate so greedily that the food dropped from their mouths to the ground)

Declension

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

See also

• sonīvius

Descendants

• ?Italian: tripudio

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tripudium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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