stipes

From Latin stīpes.

stipes (plural stipites)

1. The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion.
2. The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
3. A stipe; a stalk or stem.

• IP sets, pestis, pistes, spiest, spites

From Proto-Indo-European *steypos. Cognates include Lithuanian stìpti (“to stiffen, grow rigid”), Latvian stiept (“to stretch”), English stiff, Icelandic stífla (“to dam”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstiː.pes/, [ˈs̠t̪iːpɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.pes/, [ˈst̪iːpes]

stīpes m (genitive stīpitis); third declension

1. post, tree trunk
2. log
3. stake
4. (figuratively) blockhead, lunkhead, idiot, fool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus

Third-declension noun.

• stīpitātus (New Latin)
• stīpō
• stipula

• → Catalan: estípit (learned)
• French: stipe
  • → English: stipe
• ⇒ Galician: restreba
• Italian: stipite

• “stipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stipes 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)
• stipes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “stipes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

See main entry.

stipēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of stips