stipulation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *steyp-der.

Proto-Italic *stips

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-elā

Proto-Italic *stipelā

Latin stipula?

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Proto-Italic *stipelā

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Proto-Italic *stipelāō?

Latin stipulārī

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin stipulātiōbor.

English stipulation

Borrowed from Latin stipulātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌstɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

stipulation (countable and uncountable, plural stipulations)

1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
2. Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.

   The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.

   If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 47:

     The acts authorising the subsequent Underground lines would include a stipulation that cheap early morning fares be provided, and the Cheap Trains Act of 1883 would standardise the terms for all railways.

3. (botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
4. (chess) A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.

Derived terms

• nonstipulation
• restipulation
• stipulational
• stipulationally

Related terms

• stipulate

Translations

something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: умо́ва (be) f (umóva), агаво́рка f (ahavórka)
• Bengali: করার (bn) (korar)
• Bulgarian: условие (bg) n (uslovie)
• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: bestemmelse c, fastsættelse c
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: kondiĉo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: määräys (fi)
• French: clause (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Abmachung (de) f, Ausbedingung f, Bestimmung (de) f, Maßgabe (de) f, Übereinkunft (de) f, Vereinbarung (de) f
• Hebrew: התניה (he) f (hatnayah)
• Hungarian: kikötés (hu)
• Ido: klauzo (io)
• Irish: agó m
• Korean: 조건 (ko) (jogeon)
• Latin: stipulatio (la) f
• Polish: warunek (pl) m, zastrzeżenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: stipulație (ro) f condiție (ro) f
• Russian: условие (ru) n (uslovije)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: anlaşma (tr), ittifak (tr), karar (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: شرط (şart)

• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: amod (cy) m, amodiad m

French

Etymology

From Latin stipulātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.py.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

stipulation f (plural stipulations)

1. (law) stipulation

Related terms

• stipuler

Further reading

• “stipulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012