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Borrowed from Latin stīpes.

stipes (plural stipites)

1. The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion.
2. The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
3. A stipe; a stalk or stem.

• IP sets, pestis, pistes, spiest, spites

From Proto-Indo-European *steypos. Cognates include Lithuanian sti̇̀pti (“to stiffen, grow rigid”), Latvian stiept (“to stretch”), English stiff, Icelandic stífla (“to dam”). Synchronically analyzable as a nominal derivative of stīpō (“to compress, surround”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.pɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstiː.pes]

stīpes m (genitive stīpitis); third declension

1. post, tree trunk
2. log
3. stake
4. (figuratively, derogatory) blockhead, lunkhead, idiot, fool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus

Third-declension noun.

• stīpitātus (New Latin)

• → Catalan: estípit (learned)
• French: stipe
  • → English: stipe
• ⇒ Galician: restreba
• Italian: stipite
• Sicilian: stìpiti

• “stipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "stipes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “stipes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “stipes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stipēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of stips