coemeterium
See also: cœmeterium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “to put to sleep”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) 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
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).
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Descendants
- Albanian: qimiter
- English: cemetery, cœmeterium
- Aragonese: cimenterio
- Catalan: cementiri
- Dalmatian: čemitier
- Portuguese: cemitério
- Romanian: cimitir
- Spanish: cementerio
- 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.