tomb
English
[edit]Etymology
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From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh.
The verb is from Middle English tomben.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, Wales) IPA(key): /tuːm/
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /tʉwm/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /tum/
- (Australia, New Zealand) IPA(key): /tʉːm/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /tʉm/
- (South Asia) IPA(key): /ʈumb/
- Rhymes: -uːm
Noun
[edit]tomb (plural tombs)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, vault
- Coordinate term: grave
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- Synonym: grave
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
- One who keeps secrets.
- 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book III, chapter 4:
- I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.
- Death (literary)
- I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]small building or vault for the remains of the dead
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Verb
[edit]tomb (third-person singular simple present tombs, present participle tombing, simple past and past participle tombed)
- (transitive) To bury.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈtum]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtomp]
- IPA(key): (Central, Northwestern) [ˈtom]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Homophone: tom (Central)
Noun
[edit]tomb m (plural tombs)
- turn (change of direction)
- turn, twist (movement around an axis)
- turn (change of temperament or circumstance)
- walk, stroll
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tomb”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]tomb (plural tombes)
- alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)
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