different between tomb vs martyrium

English

Etymology

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek ?????? (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”).

The verb is from Middle English tomben.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tu?m/?
• (US) IPA^(key): /tum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

tomb (plural tombs)

1. A small building (or "vault") 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.
2. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
3. One who keeps secrets.
   • 1912 Constance Garnett (tr.), Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (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.

Derived terms

• disentomb
• entomb
• tombstone

Descendants

• ? Irish: tuama
• ? Maori: toma

Translations

Verb

tomb (third-person singular simple present tombs, present participle tombing, simple past and past participle tombed)

1. (transitive) To bury.

Catalan

Etymology

From tombar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tomp/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?tom/
• Homophone: tom (Central)

Noun

tomb m (plural tombs)

1. turn (change of direction)
2. turn, twist (movement around an axis)
3. turn (change of temperament or circumstance)
4. walk, stroll

Derived terms

• venir a tomb

Further reading

• “tomb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

tomb (plural tombes)

1. Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin martyrium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (martúrion, “testimony”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m???t??.i.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???ti?.i.?m/

Noun

martyrium (plural martyriums or martyria)

1. A tomb or other edifice erected in homage to a martyr.
2. (rhetoric) Confirming something by referring to one's own experience.

Synonyms

• (rhetoric): testatio

Related terms

• martyr
• martyrdom

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin martyrium, from Latin ?????????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?r?ti?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: mar?ty?ri?um

Noun

martyrium n (plural martyria)

1. (Christianity) A hagiography about a martyr.

   Synonyms: martyrologie, martyrologium

2. A tomb, church or monument erected in memory of a martyr.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (martúrion, “testimony”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mar?ty.ri.um/, [mär?t???i???]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /mar?ty.ri.u/, [mar?t?r?u]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mar?ti.ri.um/, [m?r?t?i??ium]

Noun

martyrium n (genitive martyri? or martyr?); second declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) martyrdom; testimony of a martyr, especially through blood (death)
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a martyrium; burial place of a martyr
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a church dedicated to a martyr

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• martyr

Descendants

References

• martyrium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• martyrium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• martyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

martyrium n (definite singular martyriet, indefinite plural martyrier, definite plural martyria or martyriene)

1. death of or as a martyr

   Synonym: martyrdød

2. (figuratively) prolonged suffering

References

• “martyrium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “martyrium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

martyrium n (definite singular martyriet, indefinite plural martyrium, definite plural martyria)

1. death of or as a martyr

   Synonym: martyrdød

2. (figuratively) prolonged suffering

References

• “martyrium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.