sarcophagus

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈkɒfəɡəs/

Noun

sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi)

1. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
2. (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
3. (historical) A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
4. (historical) An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

Related terms

• sarcophagy
• autosarcophagy

Translations

• French: sarcophage
• German: Sarkophag
• Italian: sarcofago
• Portuguese: sarcófago
• Russian: саркофа́г
• Spanish: sarcófago

Translations

• Portuguese: sarcófago
• Russian: саркофа́г

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