cippus

[ sip-uhs ]

noun

, plural cip·pi [sip, -ahy, sip, -ee].

1. (in classical architecture) a stele.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cippus¹

1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone

Example Sentences

Mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum H�c dabat; heredes monumentum ne sequeretur.

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Jupiter, on a cippus with a curious relief of Claudia drawing the boat with the image of the Magna Mater up the Tiber.

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Mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum Hic dabat, heredes monumentum ne sequeretur.

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Cippus, sip′us, n. the stocks: a monumental pillar.

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Sepulchral cippus of Anaxicrates with an amphora carved in low relief.

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