tripos

American  

[trahy-pos] / ˈtraɪ pɒs /

noun

plural

triposes

1. (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.

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tripos British  

/ ˈtraɪpɒs /

noun

1. the final honours degree examinations in all subjects at Cambridge University

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Etymology

Origin of tripos

1580–90; pseudo-Hellenization of Latin tripūs tripod

Example Sentences

“I am seeing plenty of Lingulodinium polyedra and Tripos furca the last few days — both are producers of the bioluminescence light shows we are seeing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024

Attending Cambridge, he sat for the Mathematical Tripos, a grueling eight-day exam that largely tested one’s ability to quickly calculate for extended periods of time.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024

Pigou, one of the examiners of the Economics Tripos at Cambridge University that year, wrote to Keynes to complain that both staff and students were taking much of his work too literally:

From Economist • Nov. 26, 2013

After she had stormed for some hours," he writes in his autobiography, "I gave a lesson in Locke's philosophy to her niece, Karin Costelloe, who was about to take her Tripos.

From Time Magazine Archive

He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, as Senior Optime, and first class in the Classical Tripos in 1839. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles