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English
Etymology
From Latin stirpēs, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (“rootstock”).
Noun
stirpes
- plural of stirps
- plural of stirp
Noun
stirpes pl (plural only)
- (law) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
stirpēs f (genitive stirpis); third declension
- 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- stirpes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae a terra stirpibus continentur
- the vegetable kingdom: ea quorum stirpes terra continentur (N. D. 2. 10. 26)