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Cippus
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Cip′pus
,Noun.
pl.
Cippi
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. [L., stake, post.]
A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
Gwilt.
Definition 2024
cippus
cippus
English
Noun
cippus (plural cippuses or cippi)
- A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
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Latin
Etymology
Some offer connection with Latin Scipiō and Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō) from Proto-Indo-European *skap-, whence also Latin scāpus, scamnum, English shaft.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkip.pus/, [ˈkɪp.pʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.pus/
Noun
cippus m (genitive cippī); second declension
- stake, post
- gravestone, tombstone
- landmark, boundary marker
- (military, in the plural) bulwark of sharpened stakes
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | cippus | cippī |
genitive | cippī | cippōrum |
dative | cippō | cippīs |
accusative | cippum | cippōs |
ablative | cippō | cippīs |
vocative | cippe | cippī |
Descendants
References
- cippus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cippus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CIPPUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cippus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- cippus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cippus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin