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coemeterium

coemeterium

See also: cœmeterium

Latin

Noun

coemētērium n ‎(genitive coemētēriī); second declension

cemetery, churchyard, burial ground

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	coemētērium	coemētēria
genitive	coemētēriī	coemētēriōrum
dative	coemētēriō	coemētēriīs
accusative	coemētērium	coemētēria
ablative	coemētēriō	coemētēriīs
vocative	coemētērium	coemētēria

Synonyms

cimitērium

Derived terms

cimitērium

Related terms

coemēsis

Descendants

Albanian: qimiter
English: cemetery, cœmeterium
Aragonese: cimenterio
Catalan: cementiri
Dalmatian: čemitier

French: cimetière
Galician: cimiterio
Italian: cimitero
Portuguese: cemitério

Romanian: cimitir
Spanish: cementerio
Walloon: cimintire

References

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, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coemeterium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.