cippo

Borrowed from Latin cippus. Doublet of ceppo, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.po/
• Rhymes: -ippo
• Hyphenation: cìp‧po

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.

     In 1738 a travertine boundary stone was found in Vigna Naro or Nari, about 300 metres from Porta Salaria

     (CIL VI, 31537c = 1231c)

• cippo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Coppi, coppi

cippō

1. dative/ablative singular of cippus

• 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)