stirpitus
From LSJ
Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das Wort – Maeroris unica medicina oratio.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
stirpĭtus: adv. id.; cf. radicitus from radix,
I by the stalk, by the roots, root and branch, stock and stump (very rare). *
I Lit.: arborem transferre, Dig. 47, 7, 3, § 4. —*
B Transf.: barbam forcipibus evellere, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—*
II Trop. (for the usu. radicitus), utterly: hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus extrahere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.
