Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsti.po/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#STIPOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#STIPO
• Rhymes: -ipoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ipo#STIPOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ipo/2 syllables#STIPO
• Hyphenation: stì‧po

Verb

stipoCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#STIPOCategory:Italian verb forms#STIPOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#STIPOCategory:Pages with entries#STIPOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#STIPO

1. first-person singular present indicative of stipare

Anagrams

• -ptosi, posti, ptosi

Etymology

According to De Vaan, a denominative from an adjective *stīpos (“erect, rigid”), itself from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#STIPO *stéyp-os, which may also be attested in Proto-Germanic *stīfaz (“stiff”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#STIPO *steyp- (“to be stiff, erect”).

Related to stīpes (“tree trunk, stick”), stips (“small donation, alms”); cognate with Proto-Germanic *stīfaz (whence English stiff) and Lithuanian sti̇̀pti (“to stiffen”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.poː]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#STIPOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#STIPO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.po]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#STIPOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#STIPO

Verb

stīpō (present infinitive stīpāre, perfect active stīpāvī, supine stīpātum)Category:Latin lemmas#STIPOCategory:Latin verbs#STIPOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#STIPOCategory:Pages with entries#STIPOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#STIPO; first conjugation

1. to crowd or press together, compress

   Synonyms: confero, contraho, glomerō, compellō, cōgō, congerō, concitō, concieō

2. to cram, stuff, fill

   Synonyms: impleō, expleō, compleō, cumulō, imbuō

   Antonyms: exhauriō, dēpleō, dēfundō

3. to surround, encompass

   Synonyms: complector, amplector, claudō, circumdō, circumveniō

References

Further reading

• “stipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stipo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to beg alms: stipem colligere
    
  • to contribute alms: stipem (pecuniam) conferre
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook