stipes

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

stīpes itis, m

STIP-, a log, stock, post, trunk, stake : huc illi stipites demissi, Cs.: non stipitibus duris agitur, clubs , V.: consternunt terram concusso stipite frondes, i. e. the tree , V.—Fig., of a stolid person, a stock, log : stipes, asinus, T.