Noun: cippus
| Singular | cippus |
| Plural | cippuses; cippi |
Sample Sentences
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[…]lodged on the top of an ancient sepulchral cippus [1855, Henry Duncan, Autumn:]
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[A] cippus, found at Valencia in Spain, has on one of its sides Fatus Q. Fabius ex voto, and on the other, three female figures, with the attributes of the Mœræ or Parcæ. [1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:]
Nouns inflected like cippus
deinonychus,
shamus,
pearly nautilus,
splenic plexus,
paper nautilus,
boletus,
sight radius,
subfocus,
pandanus,
pegasus,
zoilus,
Bohr radius,
black fungus,
ranunculus,
prodromus,
periannulus,
organ pipe cactus,
pluteus,
star cactus,
periplous, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake, post”). Doublet of cep. See: Latin Nouns '
cippus'.