stirpes

From Latin stirpēs, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (“rootstock”).

stirpes

1. plural of stirps
2. plural of stirp
3. (law) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.

• Prestis, Sprites, persist, priests, respits, sitreps, spriest, sprites, stripes

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstir.peːs/, [ˈstɪr.peːs]

stirpēs f (genitive stirpis); third declension

1. Alternative form of stirps

Third declension.

• stirpes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stirpes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stirpes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stirpes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae a terra stirpibus continentur
    
  • the vegetable kingdom: ea quorum stirpes terra continentur (N. D. 2. 10. 26)