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, to support.

   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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stipendiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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