stipendium

From Latin stipendium, from stips (“alms, small payment”) and pendere (“pay, weigh”).

stipendium n (singular definite stipendiet, plural indefinite stipendier)

1. scholarship (study allowance)
2. grant
3. bursary

stipendium m (plural stipendiums)

1. scholarship, bursary

Haplologized from *stipipendium, from stips (“alms, small payment”) (from stipes) and pendere (“pay, weigh”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /stiːˈpen.di.um/, [stiːˈpɛn.di.ũ]

stīpendium n (genitive stīpendiī); second declension

1. tax, impost, tribute, contribution
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:

     Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.

     If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.

2. dues
3. pay, stipend (military)
4. military service

Second declension.

• stipendium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stipendium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stipendium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stipendium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to pay the troops: stipendium dare, numerare, persolvere militibus
    
  • to serve: stipendia facere, merere
    
  • after having completed one's service: emeritis stipendiis (Sall. Iug. 84. 2)
    
• stipendium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stipendium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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stipendium n

1. a scholarship, a grant