Where does “extirpar” come from?

extirpar (Catalan) comes from Latin exstirpō, from Latin stirps, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

extirpar (Catalan): to extirpate, to uproot to pull up by the roots

Definitions

  1. to extirpate, to uproot to pull up by the roots

Ancestry of “extirpar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinexstirpōto uproot, root out
2Latinstirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ster- →Every word from Latin stirps →Every word from Latin exstirpō →
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