Cippus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

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cippus
cippus (cīpus), i, m. [kindr. with scipio; cf. σκήπτω], a pale, stake, post, pillar, Lucil. ap. Fe...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
cippus
cippus ī, m —Prop., a pale, stake, post, pillar. —Hence, a pillar at a grave, H.—Plur., in war, a b...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary