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6-letter words (3 found)

PISTES,SPITES,STIPES,

5-letter words (14 found)

PESTS,PIETS,PISES,PISTE,SEPTS,SIPES,SITES,SPETS,SPIES,SPITE,SPITS,STEPS,STIES,STIPE,

4-letter words (27 found)

ESTS,PEST,PETS,PIES,PIET,PISE,PISS,PITS,PSIS,PSST,SEIS,SEPS,SEPT,SETS,SIES,SIPE,SIPS,SIST,SITE,SITS,SPET,SPIE,SPIT,STEP,STIE,TIES,TIPS,

3-letter words (19 found)

ESS,EST,ITS,PES,PET,PIE,PIS,PIT,PSI,PST,SEI,SET,SIP,SIS,SIT,TES,TIE,TIP,TIS,

2-letter words (10 found)

ES,ET,IS,IT,PE,PI,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 74 words from stipes according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stipes

stipes

Etymology

From Latin stīpes.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

  • IP sets, pestis, pistes, spiest, spites

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *steypos. Cognates include Lithuanian stìpti (“to stiffen, grow rigid”), Latvian stiept (“to stretch”), English stiff, Icelandic stífla (“to dam”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstiː.pes/, [ˈs̠t̪iːpɛs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsti.pes/, [ˈst̪iːpes]

Noun

stīpes m (genitive stīpitis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • stīpitātus (New Latin)
  • stīpō
  • stipula
Descendants
  • → Catalan: estípit (learned)
  • French: stipe
    • → English: stipe
  • ⇒ Galician: restreba
  • Italian: stipite

References

  • “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’s 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

Etymology 2

See main entry.

Noun

stipēs

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of stips

Source: wiktionary.org