Where does “stirpe” come from?

stirpe (Italian) comes from Latin stirps, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

stirpe (Italian): descent

Definitions

  1. descent

Ancestry of “stirpe”, step by step

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