Stipes, stipitis, pen. cor. m gen. Cæsar A logge set fast in the ground: a stock: a stake: a stick.Duri stipites.Virg. Fissilis stipes. Colum. Grauis stipes. Sen. An heauie clubbe.Inanis stipes Ouid.A stock of a tree without fruite.Præacuti stipires. Cæs. Sharpe stakes.Quernus ftipes.Ouid. Ramosus. Ouid.Semicremus stipes.Ouid.Vastus stipes. Sen. An huge great clubbe.Viridis stipes.Ouid. Defossus in agro stipes. Ouid.Ramoso stipite nixus.Ouid.Leaning on the body of a tree, with branches or boughes.Nodoso stipite mactare aliquem.Ouid. Stipes, per traoslationem accipitur pro stulto, insulso, & fatuo.Terent.A foole: a dulhead: a blockhead.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
stīpĕs, ĭtis (collat. form stips, stīpis, Petr. 43, 5), m. [root stip-, = Gr. stef-; v. stipo; Sanscr. sthapa-jami, to cause to stand, to fix, place; cf. stipula]. I.Lit., a log, stock, post, trunk of a tree, etc. (class.; syn.: palus, sudes), Cat. 64, 289; Caes. B. G. 7, 73; id. B. C. 1, 27; Tib. 1, 1, 11 (21); Prop. 4 (5), 2, 18; Ov. M. 8, 451; id. F. 2, 642; 5, 506; Verg. A. 7, 524; Curt. 8, 10, 30; 4, 3, 10: deligare ad stipitem,
to a stake
, Suet. Ner. 29.—As a term of contempt, like our log, stock, post, of a stupid person: in me quidvis harum rerum convenit, Quae sunt dicta in stultum, caudex, stipes, asinus, plumbeus, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 4: qui, tamquam truncus atque stipes, si stetisset modo, posset sustinere tamen titulum consulatus, Cic. Pis. 9, 19; cf. id. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. ap. Senat. 6, 14; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 126.—II.Transf., poet.1.A tree, Ov. F. 3, 37; id. de Nuce, 32; Verg. A. 4, 444; Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 179.—2.A branch of a tree, Luc. 9, 820; Mart. 13, 19, 2: candelabri, the main stem of the candlestick, Vulg. Exod. 37, 19.