stipula

English

Etymology

Latin stipula (“stalk, stem”). Doublet of stubble.

Noun

stipula (plural stipulas or stipulae or stipulæ)

1. (botany) A stipule.
2. (zoology) A newly sprouted feather.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stipula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Paulist, litupas, tipulas

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

stipula

1. third-person singular past historic of stipuler

Italian

Verb

stipula

1. inflection of stipulare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• pulsati, spulati

Ladin

Verb

stipula

1. third-person singular present indicative of stipuler
2. third-person plural present indicative of stipuler
3. second-person singular imperative of stipuler

Latin

Alternative forms

• stupula, stupla, stubula, stubla

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stipelā (“straw”), a diminutive form of Proto-Italic *stipā (“stalk”) from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“be stiff, erect”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.pu.la/, [ˈs̠t̪ɪpʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.pu.la/, [ˈst̪iːpulä]

Noun

stipula f (genitive stipulae); first declension

1. stalk (of plant)
   • Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgicon 1.311:

     frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent

     milky corn is swelling on (its) green stalk

2. stubble
3. straw
4. reed (played as a pipe)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stipula	stipulae
Genitive	stipulae	stipulārum
Dative	stipulae	stipulīs
Accusative	stipulam	stipulās
Ablative	stipulā	stipulīs
Vocative	stipula	stipulae

Derived terms

• restupulum
  • Catalan: restoll, rostoll
  • Galician: restrollo
  • Spanish: restojo, rastrojo

Related terms

• stipulor

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: êtobla, êtrobla
• Old French: estuble, estoble, estouble, stuble, esteule
  • French: éteule
  • → Middle English: stobil, stubble, stoble
    • English: stubble
• → Catalan: estípula (learned)
• → English: stipule (learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *stopplā (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: estípula (learned)
• → Romanian: stipul (learned)
• → Spanish: estípula (learned)

References

• “stipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stipula 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)
• stipula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stips”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 588

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stipuler, from Latin stipulare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.puˈla/

Verb

a stipula (third-person singular present stipulează, past participle stipulat) 1st conj.

1. to stipulate

Conjugation

    conjugation of stipula (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a stipula
gerund			stipulând
past participle			stipulat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	stipulez	stipulezi	stipulează	stipulăm	stipulați	stipulează
	imperfect	stipulam	stipulai	stipula	stipulam	stipulați	stipulau
	simple perfect	stipulai	stipulași	stipulă	stipularăm	stipularăți	stipulară
	pluperfect	stipulasem	stipulaseși	stipulase	stipulaserăm	stipulaserăți	stipulaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să stipulez	să stipulezi	să stipuleze	să stipulăm	să stipulați	să stipuleze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		stipulează			stipulați
	negative		nu stipula			nu stipulați

Further reading

• stipula in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)