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]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.meˈte.ri.um/, [t͡ʃemeˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

coemētērium n (genitive coemētēriī or coemētērī); second declension

1. cemetery, churchyard, burial ground

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

• Albanian: qimiter
• English: cemetery, cœmeterium
• Aragonese: cimenterio
• Catalan: cementiri
• Dalmatian: čemitier
• French: cimetière
• Galician: cimiterio
• Italian: cimitero
  • → Romanian: cimitir
• Occitan: cementèri
• → Old Polish: cmyntarz
  • Polish: cmentarz
• Portuguese: cemitério
• Slovak: cintorín, cmiter
• Spanish: cementerio
  • → Cebuano: sementeryo
• Walloon: cimintire

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