stipula

From Latin stipula (“stalk, stem”). Doublet of stubble.

stipula (plural stipulas or stipulae or stipulæ)

1. (botany) A stipule.
2. (zoology) A newly-sprouted feather.

• “stipula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Paulist, litupas, tipulas

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stipula

1. third-person singular past historic of stipuler

stipula

1. inflection of stipulare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• pulsati, spulati

stipula

1. third-person singular present indicative of stipuler
2. third-person plural present indicative of stipuler
3. second-person singular imperative of stipuler

• stupula, stupla, stubula, stubla

From Proto-Italic *stipelā (“straw”), a diminutive form of Proto-Italic *stips (“stalk”) from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“be stiff, erect”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɪ.pʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪iː.pu.la]

stipula f (genitive stipulae); first declension

1. stalk (of plant)
   • Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgicon 1.311:

     frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent

     milky corn is swelling on (its) green stalk

2. stubble
3. straw
4. reed (played as a pipe)

First-declension noun.

• restupulum
  • Catalan: restoll, rostoll
  • Galician: restrollo
  • Spanish: restojo, rastrojo

• stipulor

• “stipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "stipula", 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)
• stipula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stips”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 588

Borrowed from French stipuler, from Latin stipulare.

• IPA^(key): /sti.puˈla/

a stipula (third-person singular present stipulează, past participle stipulat) 1st conjugation

1. to stipulate

• “stipula”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025