ceppo
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cippus. Compare the borrowed doublet cippo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ceppo m (plural ceppi)
- stump (of a tree)
- log (to burn)
- (informal, derogatory) habitually late person
- (plural only) blocks of wood used to immobilize prisoners
- (figuratively, by extension) shackles, fetters
- (figuratively, by extension) imprisonment, slavery, unfreedom
- (nautical) cathead
- (biology) strain
- (linguistics) phylum; stock
- (automotive) boot
- (geology) sedimentary rock
- (literary) lineage; descent
- (archaic) box for the collection of duties