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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
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- cippi di coddu ― strong neck
- cippi di vrazza ― strong arms
- cippi di gammi ― strong legs
Derived terms
Descendants
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