different between stipes vs stirpes

English

Etymology

From Latin st?pes.

Noun

stipes (plural stipites)

1. The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion.
2. The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
3. A stipe; a stalk or stem.

Anagrams

• IP sets, pestis, pistes, spiest, spites

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *steypos. Cognates include Lithuanian stìpti (“to stiffen, grow rigid”), Latvian stiept (“to stretch”), English stiff, Icelandic stífla (“to dam”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sti?.pes/, [?s?t?i?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sti.pes/, [?st?i?p?s]

Noun

st?pes m (genitive st?pitis); third declension

1. post, tree trunk
2. log
3. stake
4. (figuratively) blockhead, lunkhead, idiot, fool

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• st?pit?tus (New Latin)
• st?p?
• stipula

Descendants

• ? Galician: restreba

References

• stipes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stipes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stipes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stipes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• stipes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology 2

See main entry.

Noun

stip?s

1. nominative plural of stips
2. accusative plural of stips
3. vocative plural of stips

English

Etymology

From Latin stirp?s, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (“rootstock”).

Noun

stirpes

1. plural of stirps
2. plural of stirp

Noun

stirpes pl (plural only)

1. (law) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.

Anagrams

• Prestis, Sprites, persist, priests, respits, sitreps, spriest, sprites, stripes

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stir.pe?s/, [?s?t??rpe?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stir.pes/, [?st?irp?s]

Noun

stirp?s f (genitive stirpis); third declension

1. Alternative form of stirps

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

References

• stirpes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stirpes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stirpes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stirpes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.