See also: Stipe

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /staɪp/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪp

Etymology 1 edit

From French stipe, from Latin stipes (a stock, post, branch).

Noun edit

stipe (plural stipes)

  1. The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
  2. The trunk of a tree.
  3. The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
  4. The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
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Translations edit

Etymology 2 edit

Shortened from stipendiary.

Noun edit

stipe (plural stipes)

  1. (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
    • 2015, Barrington Black, Both Sides of the Bench, page 186:
      The lay magistrates in many parts of the country were cautious about the infringement by stipendiaries on to their particular patch, not least being that the stipe would take the more interesting work and leave them the dross.
References edit
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams edit

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

stipe m (plural stipes)

  1. stipe (stem)

Further reading edit

Latin edit

Noun edit

stipe

  1. ablative singular of stips

West Frisian edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

stipe c (plural stipen, diminutive stypke)

  1. support beam
  2. support, aid

Further reading edit

  • stipe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011