English

Etymology

Back-formation from stirps.

Noun

stirp (plural stirps)

• 1. (biology, anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor.

Anagrams

• • Anagrams of iprst

• sprit

• strip

  • trips, TRIPS

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stirps

English

Etymology 1

From Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).

Noun

stirps (plural stirpes)

• 1. A branch of a family.

  2. A progenitor of a branch of a family.

  3. (zoology, botany) A superfamily of animals or plants.

Etymology 2

See stirp

Noun

stirps

1. Plural form of stirp.

Related terms

• stirp

• stirpes

Anagrams

• • Anagrams of iprsst

• sprits

• strips

Latin

Alternative forms

• stirpēs

• stirpis

Pronunciation

• • (Classical) IPA: /stirps/

Noun

stirps (genitive stirpis); f, third declension

• 1. rootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.

  2. a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout

  3. (of people) lineage, race, family, stock

  4. scion, offspring, progeny

  5. source, origin, cause

Inflection

¹ May also be stirpīs.

Derived terms

• stirpitus

Descendants

• • English: stirpes, stirps

References

• • “stirps” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

Categories: Latin derivations | English nouns | Zoology | Botany | English plurals | Latin nouns