cippi
English
Noun
cippi
- plural of cippus
Italian
Noun
cippi m
- plural of cippo
Latin
Noun
cippī
- inflection of cippus:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive singular
Sicilian
Etymology
Compare Italian ceppi (“shackles”).
Noun
cippi m pl
- plural of cippu
- shackles, fetters
- (figurative) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.- cippi di coddu ― strong neck
- cippi di vrazza ― strong arms
- cippi di gammi ― strong legs
Derived terms
- a cippuni
Descendants
- →⇒ Maltese: ċeppuna
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “cippi e ccippi”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 865
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “cippi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, pages 322–323