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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στύππη (stúppē), probably from Pre-Greek or another Mediterranean substrate.
Noun
stuppa f (genitive stuppae); first declension
- coarse flax, tow
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “stuppa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stuppa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stuppa 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)
- stuppa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.