trevet

English

Etymology

Noun

trevet (plural trevets)

A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trevet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Vetter, vetter

Middle English

Alternative forms

trefd, treved, trivet, triwet, tryvett

Etymology

From Old English trefet and Old Northern French trevet, both ultimately from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛvɛt/, /ˈtrivɛt/

Noun

trevet

trivet, tripod

Descendants

English: trivet

References

“trivet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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