cippo

Borrowed from Latin cippus. Compare ceppo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃippo/

cippo m (plural cippi)

1. 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 (CIL VI, 31537c = 1231c).

     In 1738 a travertine boundary stone was found in Vigna Naro or Nari, about 300 metres from Porta Salaria (CIL 6, 31537c = 1231c).

• coppi

cippō

1. dative singular of cippus
2. ablative singular of cippus

• cippo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)