coemeterium
See also: cœmeterium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “to put to sleep”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koe̯.meːˈteː.ri.um/, [koe̯meːˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃe.meˈte.ri.um/, [t͡ʃemeˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun
coemētērium n (genitive coemētēriī or coemētērī); second declension
- cemetery, churchyard, burial ground
- Synonym: sepulcrētum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | coemētērium | coemētēria |
| Genitive | coemētēriī coemētērī1 |
coemētēriōrum |
| Dative | coemētēriō | coemētēriīs |
| Accusative | coemētērium | coemētēria |
| Ablative | coemētēriō | coemētēriīs |
| Vocative | coemētērium | coemētēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- cimitērium
Derived terms
- cimitērium
Related terms
- coemēsis
Descendants
Descendants
- Aragonese: cimenterio
- Catalan: cementiri
- Dalmatian: čemitier
- Old French: cimitiere
- French: cimetière
- Norman: chînm'tchiéthe
- Galician: cimiterio
- Italian: cimitero
- → Romanian: cimitir
- Occitan: cementèri
- Portuguese: cemitério
- Sicilian: cimiteriu
- → Maltese: ċimiterju
- Spanish: cementerio
- > Chavacano: cementerio (inherited)
- → Bikol Central: sementeryo
- → Cebuano: sementeryo
- → Chamorro: sementeyo
- → Ilocano: sementerio
- → Tagalog: sementeryo
- Walloon: cimintire
- → Albanian: qimiter
- → English: cemetery, cœmeterium
- → Hungarian: cinterem
- → Romanian: țintirim
- → Old Polish: cmyntarz
- Polish: cmentarz
- → Slovak: cintorín, cmiter
References
- “coemeterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coemeterium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- coemeterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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