cippus
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.pəs/
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- (historical) The stocks.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cippus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Some offer connection with Latin Scipiō and Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō) from Proto-Indo-European *skāp- < *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”), whence also Latin scāpus, scamnum, and English shaft.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkip.pus/, [ˈkɪp.pʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.pus/
Noun
cippus m (genitive cippī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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)
- cippus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, 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
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