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- Latin · derived fromexstirpō“to uproot”
- French · borrowed fromextirper
- English todayextirp
From French extirper, from Latin exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of extirpate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.