1. trĭpŭdĭum — Lewis & Short
trĭpŭdĭum, ii, n.acc. to Cic. Div. 2, 34, 72, contr. from terripavium, terripudium, but prob. from ter and pes; cf. the old form tripodare, whence tripodatio; in relig. lang.,
I Lit., a measured stamping, a leaping, jumping, dancing in relig. solemnities, a solemn religious dance:
Salios ancilia ferre ac per urbem ire canentes carmina, cum tripudiis sollemnique saltatu jussit,Liv. 1, 20, 4; cf. tripudio and † tripodatio.—
B Transf., in gen., a dance:
citatis celerare tripudiis,Cat. 63, 26:
tripudia Hispanorum,Liv. 25, 17, 5:
cum sui moris tripudiis,id. 21, 42, 3:
cantus incohantium proelium et ululatus et tripudia,id. 38, 17, 4.—
II A favorable omen, when the sacred chickens ate so greedily that the food dropped from their mouths to the ground, Cic. Div. 2, 34, 72; 2, 36, 77; 1, 15, 28; Liv. 10, 40, 5; Suet. Tib. 2; cf. solistimus.