stirpes

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

stirpes

1. plural of stirps
2. plural of stirp

stirpes pl (plural only)

1. (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/, [ˈs̠t̪ɪrpeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstir.pes/, [ˈst̪irpes]

stirpēs f (genitive stirpis); third declension

1. Alternative form of stirps

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)