FromFrenchstipe, fromLatinstipes(“a stock, post, branch”).
stipe (pluralstipes)
- Thestem of amushroom,kelp, etc.
- Thetrunk of atree.
- Thecaudicle within thepollinarium of anorchidflower
- Thepetiole of thefrond of afern orpalm
Shortened fromstipendiary.
stipe (pluralstipes)
- (historical, slang) Astipendiarymagistrate.
2015, Barrington Black,Both Sides of the Bench, page186: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 thestipe would take the more interesting work and leave them the dross.
- John Camden Hotten (1873)The Slang Dictionary
stipe m (pluralstipes)
- stipe(stem)
stipe
- ablativesingular ofstips
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stipe c (pluralstipen,diminutivestypke)
- supportbeam
- support,aid
- “stipe (I)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011
