Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃip.pu/ (Standard)
- Hyphenation: cìp‧pu
Noun
cippu m (plural cippi or cippa)
- stem, trunk (base of the tree)
- Synonym: zuccu
- block (wooden base for cutting meat or beheading)
- cippu di la ncùnija ― (wooden) anvil stand
- log (piece of a tree trunk, for burning)
- (figurative) descent, lineage, stock
- (nautical) stock (of an anchor)
- (typography) the superior of the two wooden beams at the sides of a printing press (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- Coordinate term: tressu
- (in the plural) See cippi pl.
Derived terms
- accippari
- accippatu
- cippiteḍḍu
- ncippari
- scippari
- test' 'i cippu
- testa di cippu
- aviri a testa dura comu a nu cippu
- aviri i jammi comu ê cippa
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “cippu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 866
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cippu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 323