stipendiate

English

Etymology

From Latin stipendiatus, past participle of stipendiari (to receive pay).

Verb

stipendiate (third-person singular simple present stipendiates, present participle stipendiating, simple past and past participle stipendiated)

  1. (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide (someone) with a stipend, or salary; to pay, support or fund.
    Synonym: stipend
    • 1644 September 18 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 8 September 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, [], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, []; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, [], published 1819, →OCLC:
      all the sciences are taught in the vulgar French by professors stipendiated by the greate Cardinal
    • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy [], →OCLC, part I, section II, page 14:
      It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to ſtipendiate profeſſors;—but it may be a greater good to lower the duty upon paper, and upon tea, and upon bricks and timber.

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

stipendiate

  1. inflection of stipendiare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

stipendiate f pl

  1. feminine plural of stipendiato