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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.

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