Word.ws English Dictionary

stirps

stirps noun: a branch of a family. Also the plural of stirp.

Noun

stirps (plural stirpes)

  1. A branch of a family.
  2. A progenitor of a branch of a family.
  3. A superfamily of animals or plants.

Also used as

stirps is also the plural of stirp.

Forms of stirps

pluralstirpes

Origin of stirps

Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).

Questions about stirps

What does stirps mean?
Stirps means a branch of a family.
What part of speech is stirps?
Stirps is a noun.
What is the plural of stirps?
The plural of stirps is stirpes.

Words near stirps in the dictionary

  1. stirpiculture
  2. stirpiculturist
  3. stirpiculturists
  4. stirplate
  5. stirplates
  6. stirps
  7. stirr'd
  8. stirrable
  9. stirrage
  10. stirred
  11. stirred curd cheese

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stirps (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stirps.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stirps. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.