cimetière

French

Alternative forms

• cœmetiere (obsolete)
• cœmetière (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French cimitiere, a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim.tjɛʁ/

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Noun

cimetière m (plural cimetières)

1. cemetery, graveyard

   Synonyms: cime, cimetoche

   • 1874, Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, sourced from [1]:

     Et il repose maintenant près de ses compagnons, dans ce cimetière de corail?

     And now he rests beside his companions in that coral cemetery?

Derived terms

• cime
• cimetoche

 

Further reading

• “cimetière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.