Where does “estirpa” come from?

estirpa (Maltese) comes from Italian estirpare, from Latin exstirpō, from Latin stirps, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

estirpa (Maltese): to extirpate

Definitions

  1. to extirpate

Ancestry of “estirpa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianestirpareto uproot, pull up; to extract, pull; to remove
2Latinexstirpōto uproot, root out
3Latinstirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ster- →Every word from Latin stirps →Every word from Latin exstirpō →