stirrup
STIRRUP
stapia: stapeda (in the Latin of the Middle Ages): scala (from the sixth century; Vid: Vogel’s History of Inventions vol. i p. 431). Stirrup-leather *lorum stapiae.
stapia: stapeda (in the Latin of the Middle Ages): scala (from the sixth century; Vid: Vogel’s History of Inventions vol. i p. 431). Stirrup-leather *lorum stapiae.
stirrup: the earliest word used to designate s. is *scāla, though even this is very late Latinity. *Stapes, *stapia, *stapedium, *stapeda, are only found in some very late inscriptions, and have no classical authority: v. Ducange.