different between stipe vs stope

English

Etymology

From French stipe, from Latin stipes (“a stock, post, branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

stipe (plural stipes)

1. The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
2. The trunk of a tree.
3. The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
4. The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm

Related terms

• stipitate
• stipule

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, spite

Latin

Noun

stipe

1. ablative singular of stips

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

stipe c (plural stipen, diminutive stypke)

1. support beam
2. support, aid

Further reading

• “stipe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German st?pe (“step”). More at stoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sto?p]

Noun

stope (plural stopes)

1. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 318,

     The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.

Derived terms

Verb

stope (third-person singular simple present stopes, present participle stoping, simple past and past participle stoped)

1. (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
2. (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

Anagrams

• ETOPS, Poets, Potes, T pose, T-pose, Topes, e-stop, estop, pesto, poets, poset, potes, septo-, stoep, topes

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin stuppa, from Ancient Greek ?????? (stúpp?).

Noun

stope f (plural stope)

1. tow
2. oakum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stope

1. past participle of stupa