stipo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofstipare
According to De Vaan, a denominative from an adjective*stīpos(“erect,rigid”), itself fromProto-Indo-European*stéyp-os, which may also be attested inProto-Germanic*stīfaz(“stiff”). Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*steyp-(“to be stiff, erect”).
Related tostīpes(“tree trunk, stick”),stips(“small donation, alms”); cognate withProto-Germanic*stīfaz (whenceEnglishstiff) andLithuaniansti̇̀pti(“to stiffen”).[1]
stīpō (present infinitivestīpāre,perfect activestīpāvī,supinestīpātum);first conjugation
- tocrowd orpresstogether,compress
- Synonyms:confero,contraho,glomerō,compellō,cōgō,congerō,concitō,concieō
- tocram,stuff,fill
- Synonyms:impleō,expleō,compleō,cumulō,imbuō
- Antonyms:exhauriō,dēpleō,dēfundō
- tosurround,encompass
- Synonyms:complector,amplector,claudō,circumdō,circumveniō
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “stīpō, -āre”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page588
- “stipo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stipo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “stipo”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to beg alms:stipem colligere
- to contribute alms:stipem (pecuniam) conferre
