cippus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.pəs/

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

2. (historical) The stocks.

• cippus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• cīpus

Unclear. Some offer connection with Latin Scipiō and Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō) from Proto-Indo-European *skāp- < *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”), whence also Latin scāpus, scamnum, and English shaft.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkip.pus/, [ˈkɪpːʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.pus/, [ˈt͡ʃipːus]

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

Second-declension noun.

• “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