cippo
Italian
FWOTD – 23 June 2014
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cippus. Doublet of ceppo, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.po/
- Rhymes: -ippo
- Hyphenation: cìp‧po
Noun
cippo m (plural cippi)
- an engraved stone serving as a memorial or marking a boundary, etc.
- 2007, Cristiana Cupitò, Il territorio tra la via Salaria, l’Aniene, il Tevere e la via “Salaria vetus”, L’Erma di Bretschneider, page 153:
- Nel 1738 nella Vigna Naro o Nari, a circa 300 metri da Porta Salaria, fu ritrovato un cippo di travertino.
- In 1738 a travertine boundary stone was found in Vigna Naro or Nari, about 300 metres from Porta Salaria
- (CIL VI, 31537c = 1231c)
- 2007, Cristiana Cupitò, Il territorio tra la via Salaria, l’Aniene, il Tevere e la via “Salaria vetus”, L’Erma di Bretschneider, page 153:
Further reading
- cippo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- Coppi, coppi
Latin
Noun
cippō
- dative/ablative singular of cippus
References
- cippo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)