cippus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake, post”). Doublet of cep.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cippus (plural cippuses or cippi)
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- 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.
- (historical) The stocks.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- “cippus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Seemingly from a Proto-Italic *keipos (where Latin cīpus would be the older form), likely related to scīpiō, of unclear further origin. Some offer connection with Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”), whence also Latin scāpus and English shaft, but this is problematic and certainly cannot account for the form with long ī. 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”).[1] Furthermore, the irregular alternation between the form with short ĭ and geminate pp versus that with long ī with singular p could indicate contamination from another Italic dialect or borrowing from a substrate language; however, this may be a normal Latin sound law seen also in littera from lītera.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkip.pus/, [ˈkɪpːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.pus/, [ˈt͡ʃipːus]
Noun
[edit]cippus m (genitive cippī); second declension
- stake, post
- gravestone, tombstone
- landmark, boundary marker
- (military, in the plural) bulwark of sharpened stakes
- menhir
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
- ^ 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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