cemetery

• n.墓地; 墓地

PIE*keiの「横たわる」「休息する」が語源。-et、小単語接尾辞、-ery、場所接尾辞。

cemetery

cemetery: [14] Not surprisingly for a word having associations with death, cemetery’s origins are euphemistic. It comes via late Latin coemētērium from Greek koimētérion, which originally meant ‘dormitory’ (it was a derivative of the verb koiman ‘put to sleep’); it was apparently early Greek Christian writers who first applied the word to burial grounds.

cemetery (n.)

late 14c., from Old French cimetiere "graveyard" (12c.), from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion "sleeping place, dormitory," from koiman "to put to sleep," keimai "I lie down," from PIE root *kei- "to lie, rest," also "bed, couch," hence secondary sense of "beloved, dear" (cognates: Greek keisthai "to lie, lie asleep," Old Church Slavonic semija "family, domestic servants," Lithuanian ?eima "domestic servants," Lettish sieva "wife," Old English hiwan "members of a household," higid "measure of land," Latin cunae "a cradle," Sanskrit Sivah "propitious, gracious"). Early Christian writers were the first to use it for "burial ground," though the Greek word also had been anciently used in reference to the sleep of death. An Old English word for "cemetery" was licburg.

1. We got arrested once，for singing bawdy songs in a cemetery .

私たちはかつて墓地で下品な歌を歌っていたために拘束されたことがある。

2.The whole area has been shocked by the desecration of the cemetery .

墓地への冒涜は地域全体を驚かせた。

3.He walked numbly into the cemetery .

彼はぼんやりと墓地に入った。

4.He was buried in Highgate Cemetery .

彼はヘクト墓地に埋葬された。

5.The body was interred at the cemetery .

遺体は共同墓地に埋葬されている。