Stirpes [noun]

Definition of Stirpes:

ancestry

Synonyms of Stirpes:

● Origin

● Clan

● Pedigree

● Genealogy

● Descent

● Tribe

● Progeny

● Family

● House

● Kin

● Breed

● Kindred

● Extraction

● Heredity

● Race

● Blood

● Birth

● Succession

● Line

● Offspring

● Folk

● Stock

● Descendants

● Forebears


Opposite/Antonyms of Stirpes:

● Parent


Sentence/Example of Stirpes:

Some took the additional name from the stirps instead of from the gns, that is, from the cognmen instead of from the nmen.

The principal characters of the story, belonging to the stirps Muciana, are purely imaginary.

Among the Iroquois descent was never reckoned through the male line, the stirps being always a woman.