stuppa

Latin

Alternative forms

• stīpa, stūpa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στύππη (stúppē), probably from Pre-Greek or another Mediterranean substrate.

Noun

stuppa f (genitive stuppae); first declension

1. coarse flax, tow

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stuppa	stuppae
genitive	stuppae	stuppārum
dative	stuppae	stuppīs
accusative	stuppam	stuppās
ablative	stuppā	stuppīs
vocative	stuppa	stuppae

Derived terms

• stuppeus
• stuppaculum
• *stuppāre

Descendants

Descendants

• Aromanian: stupã
• Asturian: estopa
• Catalan: estopa
• Old French: estupe
  • French: étoupe
• Friulian: stope
• Galician: estopa
• Italian: stoppa
• Occitan: estopa
• Portuguese: estopa
• Romanian: stupă
• Sicilian: stuppa
• Spanish: estopa
• Venetan: stopa
• → Albanian: shtupë
• → English: estop, stupe
• → Middle Irish: sop, sopp
  • Irish: sop
  • Scottish Gaelic: sop
• → Translingual: Stipa

References

• “stuppa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stuppa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stuppa 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)
• stuppa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.