Where does “extirp” come from?

extirp (English) comes from French extirper, from Latin exstirpō, from Latin stirps, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

extirp (English): To extirpate

Definitions

  1. To extirpate

Ancestry of “extirp”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchextirperto uproot, extirpate; to remove, take out; to...
2Latinexstirpōto uproot, root out
3Latinstirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile

Words derived from “extirp”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ster- →Every word from Latin stirps →Every word from Latin exstirpō →