cenotaph
Meaningan empty tomb
Common meaning: a monument to the dead buried elsewhere
- cenoempty (Greek kenos)
- tapha burial; a graveLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 794 · scan
‘empty (Greek kenos)’ + ‘a burial’ → cenotaph
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek τάφος ‘a burial; a grave’.
Roots
- τάφος Greek “a burial; a grave”
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