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CIPPUS

Definition: CIPPUS

CIPPUS

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CIPPUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Cippus \Cip"pus\, noun; plural Cippi. [Latin expression, stake, post.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: CIPPUS

English words defined with "CIPPUS": Cippi. (references)

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Modern Translations: CIPPUS

Language Translations for "CIPPUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

cippo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ippuscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CIPPUS"

Words rhyming with "CIPPUS" (pronounced 'Cip"pus'): Apus, Campus, Canopus, Carpus, Corpus, grampus, hippocampus, lupus, mesohippus, metacarpus, Miohippus, mopus, Opus, Orohippus, Palpus, Pappus, Pedipalpus, Pithecanthropus, Pliohippus, Porpus, Protohippus, rumpus, Scapus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CIPPUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-p-p-s-u"

-2 letters: cups, cusp, pics, pips, pups, scup, spic.

-3 letters: cis, cup, pic, pip, pis, piu, psi, pup, pus, sic, sip, sup, ups.

-4 letters: is, pi, si, up, us.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-p-p-s-u"
 

+1 letter: pickups.

 

+2 letters: cuppiest, cuppings.

 

+4 letters: populistic, porcupines, scuppering, suppliance, supplicant, supplicate, supraoptic.

 

+5 letters: cappuccinos, hippocampus, perspicuity, perspicuous, precipitous, preoccupies, superscript, suppliances, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates, uppercasing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CIPPUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 50 50 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..    .--.    .--.    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01010000 01010000 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#80 &#80 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0050 0050 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374350505553

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CIPPUS"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliano

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationinglese
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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