different between tomb vs sarcophagus
tomb
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)
- 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.
- A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
- 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.
- 1912 Constance Garnett (tr.), Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Book III, chapter 4
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)
- (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)
- turn (change of direction)
- turn, twist (movement around an axis)
- turn (change of temperament or circumstance)
- 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)
- Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)
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sarcophagus
English
Etymology
From French sarcophage, from Latin sarcophagus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sarkophágos, “coffin of limestone”, noun), so named from a supposed property of consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, from ?????????? (sarkophágos, “flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from genitive ?????? (sarkós) of ???? (sárx, “flesh, meat”) + -????? (-phágos) (from ?????? (éphagon), past of ???? (phág?, “eat”))
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??(?)?k?f???s/
Noun
sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses)
- A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
- (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
- (historical) A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
- (historical) An 18th-century form of wine cooler.
Related terms
- sarcophagy
- autosarcophagy
Translations
Further reading
- sarcophagus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sarcophagus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sarcophagus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (sarkophágos, “coffin of limestone”), ?????????? (sarkophágos, “flesh-eating, carnivorous”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sar?ko.p?a.?us/, [s?är?k?p?ä??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sar?ko.fa.?us/, [s?r?k??f??us]
Noun
sarcophagus m (genitive sarcophag?); second declension
- a grave, sepulchre
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- Old High German: saruh
- Middle High German: sarc
- German: Sarg
- Middle High German: sarc
- Vulgar Latin: *sarcus
- Middle Dutch: sarc, serc
- Dutch: zerk
- Old Frisian: serk
- Middle Dutch: sarc, serc
- Vulgar Latin: *sarcovagum, *sarcovum
- Old French: sarcou, sarqueu
- French: cercueil
- Esperanto: ?erko
- Norman: cerqueu
- French: cercueil
- >? Galician: sartego, sarteo
- Old French: sarcou, sarqueu
- ? English: sarcophagus
- ? French: sarcophage
Adjective
sarcophagus (feminine sarcophaga, neuter sarcophagum); first/second-declension adjective
- flesh-devouring, carnivorous
- a kind of limestone used for coffins
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- sarcophagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sarcophagus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sarcophagus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- sarcophagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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