tomb
see also: Tomb
Etymology
Tomb
Etymology
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see also: Tomb
Etymology
From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος, probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-.
The verb is from Middle English tomben.
Pronunciation Nountomb (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.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene v]:
- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
- One who keeps secrets.
- 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 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.
- French: tombe, tombeau
- German: Grabmal, Gruft
- Italian: tomba
- Portuguese: túmulo, tumba, jazigo
- Russian: гробни́ца
- Spanish: tumba
tomb (tombs, present participle tombing; simple past and past participle tombed)
- (transitive) To bury.
Tomb
Etymology
Perhaps a variant spelling of Tom, with excrescent -b.
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