stipes

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English

Etymology

From Latin stīpes.

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

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

Noun

stīpes m (genitive stīpitis); third declension

  1. post, tree trunk
  2. log
  3. stake
  4. (figuratively) blockhead, lunkhead, idiot, fool
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative stīpes stīpitēs
Genitive stīpitis stīpitum
Dative stīpitī stīpitibus
Accusative stīpitem stīpitēs
Ablative stīpite stīpitibus
Vocative stīpes stīpitēs
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Catalan: estípit (learned)
  • French: stipe
  • ⇒ Galician: restreba
  • Italian: stipite

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

stipēs

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of stips
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