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English

Etymology

Back-formation from stirps.

Noun

stirp (plural stirps or stirpes)

1. (biology, anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor.
2. (systematics) A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.

Anagrams

• Strip, TRIPS, spirt, sprit, strip, trips

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).

Noun

stirps (plural stirpes)

1. A branch of a family.
2. A progenitor of a branch of a family.
3. (zoology, botany) A superfamily of animals or plants.

Related terms

• stirp
• stirpes

Etymology 2

Noun

stirps

1. plural of stirp

Anagrams

• spirts, sprits, strips

Latin

Alternative forms

• stirp?s
• stirpis

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sterp, *ster- (“stiff”), related to Lithuanian sterptis (“to stiffen”), Ancient Greek ??????? (stereós, “solid”), Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /stirps/, [s?t??rps?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stirps/, [st?irps]

Noun

stirps f (genitive stirpis); third declension

1. rootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.
2. a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout
3. (of people) lineage, race, family, stock
4. scion, offspring, progeny
5. source, origin, cause

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• exstirp?
• stirpitus

Descendants

References

• stirps in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stirps in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stirps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette