coemeterium

See also: cœmeterium

Latin

From Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “to put to sleep”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koe̯.meːˈteː.ri.um/, [koe̯meːˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.meˈte.ri.um/, [t͡ʃemeˈt̪ɛːrium]

coemētērium n (genitive coemētēriī or coemētērī); second declension

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

Aragonese: cimenterio
Catalan: cementiri
Dalmatian: čemitier
Old French: cimitiere
- French: cimetière
- Norman: chînm'tchiéthe
Galician: cimiterio
Italian: cimitero
- → Romanian: cimitir
Occitan: cementèri
Piedmontese: sarmanteri, simantiri, samanteri, simanteri, simiteri, simitere, suminteri
Portuguese: cemitério
Sicilian: cimiteriu
- → Maltese: ċimiterju
Spanish: cementerio
- > Chavacano: cementerio (inherited)
- → Bikol Central: sementeryo
- → Cebuano: sementeryo
- → Chamorro: sementeyo
- → Ilocano: sementerio
- → Tagalog: sementeryo
Walloon: cimintire
→ Albanian: qimiter
→ English: cemetery, cœmeterium
→ Hungarian: cinterem
- → Romanian: țintirim
→ Old Polish: cmyntarz
- Polish: cmentarz
→ Slovak: cintorín, cmiter

“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.