stirps
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).
Noun edit
stirps (plural stirpes)
- A branch of a family.
- A progenitor of a branch of a family.
- (zoology, botany) A superfamily of animals or plants.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
stirps
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sterp-, *ster- (“stiff”), related to Lithuanian sterptis (“to stiffen”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /stirps/, [s̠t̪ɪrps̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /stirps/, [st̪irps]
Noun edit
stirps f (genitive stirpis); third declension
- rootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.
- a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout
- (of people) lineage, race, family, stock
- scion, offspring, progeny
- source, origin, cause
- Synonym: orīgō
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | stirps | stirpēs |
Genitive | stirpis | stirpium |
Dative | stirpī | stirpibus |
Accusative | stirpem | stirpēs stirpīs |
Ablative | stirpe | stirpibus |
Vocative | stirps | stirpēs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “stirps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stirps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stirps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN