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cippus

cippus

boundary stone

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What it meant

1. cippus — de Vaan

cippus 'boundary stone' [m. o] (Lucil.+; Mars., CIL 5: Cei/p.apur()finem) Pit *keipoA PIE *(s)keip-o- 'pole, stick'? IE cognates: Skt sepa-, sepha- 'tail, penis'. If the attestation ceip does indeed represent ceipus, oc if it is directly cognate with — [de Vaan, s.v. cippus, p. 129]

2. cippus — Lewis & Short

cippus (cīpus), i, m.kindr. with scipio; cf. skh/ptw,

I a pale, stake, post, pillar, Lucil. ap. Fest. p. 258; and specif.,
I A gravestone, tombstone, * Hor. S. 1, 8, 12; Pers. 1, 37; Prud. Apoth. 361; Inscr. Orell. 4524 al.—
II In the Agrimensores, a landmark, boundary-stone or post, Simplic. ap. Goes. p. 88.—*
III In milit. lang., cippi, ōrum, m., a bulwark formed of sharpened stakes, Caes. B. G. 7, 73.

3. cippus — Walde–Hofmann

cippus, -i m. „spitzer Schanzpfahl (Caes.), spitze Säule (Leichen-, Grenzstein) aus Holz oder Stein*, spätl. auch „Götzenbild, Marterwerkzeug" (seit Lucil, rom. auch „Fels“, Gbd. „Spitze*): obwohl zwar die Deutung von mars.lat. ceip CIL. 1° 5 als ceip(om) nicht sicher steht (s. z. B. Ehrlich RhM. 68, 609, dagegen Ribezzo RIGI. 14, 78), andererseits aber auch o. K i£piís nicht für altes 5 beweist, da trotz v. Planta … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cippus, p. 251]

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. cippus (scan p. 129; entry #274).
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cippus (scan p. 146; entry #2176).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cippus (scan pp. 251-252; entry #650). Root candidates: *sgéip-, *sgip-, *kiph-.

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