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)
- (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
- “stipendiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
stipendiate
- inflection of stipendiare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
stipendiate f pl
- feminine plural of stipendiato