different between memorial vs cenotaph

English

Etymology

From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??m???i.?l/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /m??mo??i.?l/
• Rhymes: -?????l

Noun

memorial (plural memorials)

1. (obsolete) Memory; recollection. [14th–18th c.]
2. Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. [from 14th c.]
3. A chronicle or memoir. [from 14th c.]
4. (now rare) A note or memorandum. [from 14th c.]
5. (chiefly Christianity) A service of remembrance or commemoration. [from 15th c.]
6. (law) A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• memorialize

Translations

Adjective

memorial (comparative more memorial, superlative most memorial)

1. Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
2. Contained in the memory.

3. (now rare) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Translations

Crimean Tatar

Noun

memorial

1. memorial.

Declension

Adjective

memorial

1. memorial.

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin memori?lis.

Noun

memorial m (plural memoriales)

1. memorial

Related terms

• memoria

Further reading

• “memorial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French cénotaphe, from Ancient Greek ????? (kenós, “empty”) + ????? (táphos, “tomb”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.??.tæf/, /?s?n.??.t??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.tæf/

Noun

cenotaph (plural cenotaphs)

1. A monument, especially in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.

   A cenotaph was erected for him in Gaul, while his body was taken to Rome and inclosed in a magnificent tomb.

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1

     […] tombs and cenotaphs were strewed thick around adorned by every renewing vegetation; […]

   • 1967, Ambrose Bierce (ed E. J. Hopkins) The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary

     Cenotaph, n. A tomb from which the body is absent, living elsewhere. The grave whose headstone bore the famous inscription,
         Here lies me two children dear
         One in ould Ireland, t'other one here.
     was a cenotaph, so far as regarded the "One in ould Ireland".

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cloud

        I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
        And the nursling of the Sky;
        I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
        I change, but I cannot die.
        For after the rain when with never a stain
        The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
        And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
        Build up the blue dome of air,
        I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
        And out of the caverns of rain,
        Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
        I arise and unbuild it again.

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