English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin stirpēs, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (rootstock).

Noun edit

stirpes

  1. plural of stirps
  2. plural of stirp

Noun edit

stirpes pl (plural only)

  1. (law) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

stirpēs f (genitive stirpis); third declension

  1. Alternative form of stirps

Declension edit

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative stirpēs stirpēs
Genitive stirpis stirpium
Dative stirpī stirpibus
Accusative stirpem stirpēs
stirpīs
Ablative stirpe stirpibus
Vocative stirpēs stirpēs

References edit

  • 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[1], 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)