stipula

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English

Etymology

From Latin stipula (stalk, stem). Doublet of stubble.

Noun

stipula (plural stipulas or stipulae or stipulæ)

  1. (botany) A stipule.
  2. (zoology) A newly sprouted feather.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stipula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

stipula

  1. third-person singular past historic of stipuler

Italian

Verb

stipula

  1. inflection of stipulare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

stipula

  1. third-person singular present indicative of stipuler
  2. third-person plural present indicative of stipuler
  3. second-person singular imperative of stipuler

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stipelā (straw), a diminutive form of Proto-Italic *stips (stalk) from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (be stiff, erect).

Pronunciation

Noun

stipula f (genitive stipulae); first declension

  1. stalk (of plant)
    • Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgicon 1.311:
      frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent
      milky corn is swelling on (its) green stalk
  2. stubble
  3. straw
  4. reed (played as a pipe)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative stipula stipulae
genitive stipulae stipulārum
dative stipulae stipulīs
accusative stipulam stipulās
ablative stipulā stipulīs
vocative stipula stipulae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • stipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • stipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stipula 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)
  • stipula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stips”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 588

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stipuler, from Latin stipulare.

Pronunciation

Verb

a stipula (third-person singular present stipulează, past participle stipulat) 1st conjugation

  1. to stipulate

Conjugation

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