stips

English

Noun

stips

1. plural of stip

Verb

stips

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stip

Anagrams

• ISTPs, spits

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stips (“stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“stiff, erect”).^[1] See Latin stīpō, Latin stipulor and English stiff.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /stips/, [s̠t̪ɪps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stips/, [st̪ips]

Noun

stips f (genitive stipis); third declension

1. a gift, donation, contribution
2. alms, dole, charity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stips	stipēs
genitive	stipis	stipum
dative	stipī	stipibus
accusative	stipem	stipēs
ablative	stipe	stipibus
vocative	stips	stipēs

References

1. 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, pages 588-589

Further reading

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