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| Noun | 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.[Websters]. | |
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Date "Cippus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Etymology:Cippus \Cip"pus\, noun; plural Cippi. [Latin expression, stake, post.]. (references) |
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| Antiquities | 1: Cippus (1) Originally the trunk of a tree with its branches lopped off, left standing in the ground as a stump, or else stuck in the ground. The cippus was sometimes sharpened to a point, and thus used in fortification as a sort of chevaux-de-frise (B.G. vii. 73). (2) A low column of stone, sometimes round, but oftener rectangular, and used (a) as a mark of the division of land by the agrimensores (q.v.); and (b) as a sepulchral monument, many of these having been exhumed. On several cippi are found the letters T.T.L.; that is, Sit tibi terra levis, whence Persins says, Non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa (Sat.i. 37). It was also usual to place at one corner of the burying-ground a cippus, on which the extent of the burying-ground was marked, along the road (in fronte), and backward to the fields (in agrum) (Sat.i. 8 Sat., 12 Sat., 13). See Sepulcrum. (references) | ||
| 2: Cippus or Cipus, Genucius. A Roman praetor, on whose head horns suddenly sprouted as he was leaving the city. The haruspices declared this portent to indicate that if he re-entered Rome he would be made king, to avert which he imposed perpetual exile on himself (Ovid, Met. xv. 565; Val. Max. v. 6, 3). (references) | |||
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Topics by Level of Interest: CIPPUS | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Cippus perusinus | 13 | Cippus perusinus | 13 | |
| Tajuria cippus | 3 | Tajuria cippus | 3 | |
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Computed Synonyms: cippus
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| Bohemian | cipus (cippus, cypus). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, cippus. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | cipus (cippus, cypus). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, cippus. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | cipus (cippus, cypus). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, cippus. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | cippo (boundary stone, cippus). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, cippus. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “cippus” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Athag | cathagippathagus (cippus). Additional references: Athag, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
| Double Dutch | cagippagus (cippus). Additional references: Double Dutch, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
| Leet | ¢!|"|"\/$ (cippus). Additional references: Leet, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
| Oppish | copippopus (cippus). Additional references: Oppish, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
| Pig Latin | ippuscay (cippus). Additional references: Pig Latin, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | cippo (cippus). Additional references: Terran B, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
| Ubbi Dubbi | cubippubus (cippus). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, cippus. (volunteer) | |||
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