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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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French

Verb

stipula

1. third-person singular past historic of stipuler

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Italian

Verb

stipula

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

Anagrams

• pulsati, spulati

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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

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Latin

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

Related terms

• stipulor

Descendants

• Catalan: estípula
• English: stipule
• Portuguese: estípula
• Romanian: stipul
• Spanish: estípula

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