cippo

Italian

FWOTD – 23 June 2014

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Coppi, coppi

Latin

Noun

cippō

1. dative/ablative singular of cippus

References

• 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)