cippe
French, noun/sip/
cippe is spelled C-I-P-P-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cippe is a French masculine noun meaning “cippus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Demi-colonne sans chapiteau, sur laquelle on grave quelquefois des inscriptions”.
What does cippe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecippus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Demi-colonne sans chapiteau, sur laquelle on grave quelquefois des inscriptions.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cippe
- cippes plural
- cyppe
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cippe?
- /sip/
- \sip\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cippe in French?
cippe appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).