stirps

[ sturps ]

noun

, plural stir·pes [stur, -peez].

1. a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
2. Law. a person from whom a family is descended.
3. Biology Now Rare. a family, superfamily, or permanent variety.

stirps

/ stɜːps /

noun

1. genealogy a line of descendants from an ancestor; stock or strain
2. botany a race or variety, esp one in which the characters are maintained by cultivation

Word History and Origins

Origin of stirps¹

1675–85; < Latin: rootstock, trunk

Word History and Origins

Origin of stirps¹

C17: from Latin: root, family origin

Example Sentences

Some took the additional name from the stirps instead of from the gns, that is, from the cognmen instead of from the nmen.

From Project Gutenberg

The principal characters of the story, belonging to the stirps Muciana, are purely imaginary.

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Animus est ingeneratus Deo, ex quo vere vel agnatio nobis cum cœlestibus, vel genus vel stirps appellari potest.

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Among the Iroquois descent was never reckoned through the male line, the stirps being always a woman.

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Transit etiam in arborem in quibusdam regionibus Ricinus, alibi annua stirps.

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Related Words

• clan
• descent
• genealogy
• origin
• pedigree