stipe
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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B: petiole of a fern frond (etymology 1 sense 4)
C: stem supporting the cap of a fungus (etymology 1 sense 1)
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#STIPECategory:English terms derived from French#STIPE stipe, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#STIPE stīpes (“a stock, post, branch”).
Noun
stipe (plural stipes)Category:English lemmas#STIPECategory:English nouns#STIPECategory:English countable nouns#STIPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STIPECategory:Pages with entries#STIPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#STIPE
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- 1880, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Fungi: Their Nature, Influence, and Uses, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 107:
- Habitually, the phosphorescence is distributed in an unequal manner upon the stipe, and the same upon the gills.Category:English terms with quotations#STIPE
- The trunk of a tree.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- 1917, S. Leonard Bastin, How to Know the Ferns, London: Methuen & Co:
- The stipes or bare portion of the frond is, as a rule, about the same length as the leafy portion.Category:English terms with quotations#STIPE
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Etymology 2
Shortened from stipendiary.
Noun
stipe (plural stipes)Category:English lemmas#STIPECategory:English nouns#STIPECategory:English countable nouns#STIPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STIPECategory:Pages with entries#STIPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#STIPE
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#STIPE, slangCategory:English slang#STIPE) A stipendiary magistrate.
- 2015, Barrington Black, Both Sides of the Bench, page 186:
- The lay magistrates in many parts of the country were cautious about the infringement by stipendiaries on to their particular patch, not least being that the stipe would take the more interesting work and leave them the dross.Category:English terms with quotations#STIPE
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
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Pronunciation
Noun
stipe m (plural stipes)Category:French lemmas#STIPECategory:French nouns#STIPECategory:French countable nouns#STIPECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#STIPECategory:French masculine nouns#STIPECategory:Pages with entries#STIPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#STIPE
- stipe (stem)
Further reading
- “stipe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Noun
stipeCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#STIPECategory:Latin noun forms#STIPECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#STIPECategory:Pages with entries#STIPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#STIPE
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in West Frisian entries#STIPE
Noun
stipe c (plural stipen, diminutive stypke)Category:West Frisian lemmas#STIPECategory:West Frisian nouns#STIPECategory:West Frisian entries with incorrect language header#STIPECategory:West Frisian common-gender nouns#STIPECategory:Pages with entries#STIPECategory:Pages with 4 entries#STIPE
Further reading
- “stipe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011