stipend
/sˈtaɪpənd/STIGH-puhnd
/sˈtaɪpənd/STIGH-puhnd
Meaninga payment
Common meaning: a fixed regular payment
- stipa small coin; a paymentLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1760 · scan
- endLatin ending: that must be
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√STAP‘cause to stand, make firm’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 423, p. 745 · scan
- Latinstips, stipis‘a small coin’
- Englishstipend‘a fixed regular payment’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin stips ‘a small coin; a payment’.
Roots
- stips, stipis Latin “a small coin; a payment”
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