cippus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake, post”). Doublet of cep.

Pronunciation

Noun

cippus (plural cippuses or cippi)

Funerary cippus from Sidon
  1. 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.
    • 1855, Henry Duncan, Autumn:
      […] lodged on the top of an ancient sepulchral cippus
    • 1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:
      [A] cippus, found at Valencia in Spain, has on one of its sides Fatus Q. Fabius ex voto, and on the other, three female figures, with the attributes of the Mœræ or Parcæ.
  2. (historical) The stocks.

Translations

stocks — see stocks

References

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Seemingly from a Proto-Italic *keipos, likely related to Latin Scipiō, of unclear further origin. Some offer connection with Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō), from Proto-Indo-European *skāp- < *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”), whence also Latin scāpus and English shaft. Others, such as De Vaan, prefer to derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱéypos (“pole, stick”), connecting it to Sanskrit शेप (śepa, “penis, tail”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cippus m (genitive cippī); second declension

  1. stake, post
  2. gravestone, tombstone
  3. landmark, boundary marker
  4. (military, in the plural) bulwark of sharpened stakes
  5. menhir

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

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115
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