cippo
Italian
FWOTD – 23 June 2014
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.po/
- Rhymes: -ippo
- Hyphenation: cìp‧po
Noun
cippo m (plural cippi)
- 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)
- 2007, Cristiana Cupitò, Il territorio tra la via Salaria, l’Aniene, il Tevere e la via “Salaria vetus”, L’Erma di Bretschneider, page 153:
Further reading
- cippo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
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)
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