Where does “extirpa” come from?

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

extirpa (Romanian): to extirpate

Definitions

  1. to extirpate

Ancestry of “extirpa”, 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 “extirpa”

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