The corpus record — Latin

tripes

tripes · adj

having three feet

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

trĭ-pēs — Lewis & Short

trĭ-pēs, ĕdis, adj.ter,

I having three feet, three-footed: mensa, Hor. S. 1, 3, 13: grabatus, Mart. 12, 32, 11: mulus natus, Liv. 40, 2, 4; 40, 45, 4.—Trop., of a man leaning on a staff, Maxim. 1, 219, de sene.

In the wild

tripes Martial, Epigrammata 12.32.11
tripes Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.120.20
tripes Ausonius, Griphus Ternarii numeri 1.39
tripes Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.3.13

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tripes (scan pp. 503-504; entry #8184).

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