Everyday LifeGreek → English
Cemetery
A burial ground.
The Greek roots
κοιμητήριον
koimētḗrion
sleeping place
Literally: “a dormitory”
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The story of the word
A gentle euphemism: from koimân, 'to put to sleep' — the cemetery is, softly, a 'sleeping-place'.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The old cemetery lay quiet beneath the yews.