LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

stirpitus

stirpitus (not comparable)

Meaning

  1. not comparableby the roots
  2. not comparableutterly, completely, radically

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Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

errorem stirpitus extrahere
to totally eradicate false principles.

stirpĭtus, adv. id.; cf. radicitus from radix,
I. by the stalk, by the roots, root and branch, stock and stump (very rare). *
I. Lit.: arborem transferre, Dig. 47, 7, 3, § 4. —*
B. Transf.: barbam forcipibus evellere, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—*
II. Trop. (for the usu. radicitus), utterly: hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus extrahere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.

Origins

From stirps + -tus.

Quick answers

What does stirpitus mean in Latin?
stirpitus, a adverb, means “by the roots; utterly, completely, radically”.