• n. 墓地；公墓

來自PIE*kei, 躺，休息，詞源同home, city. 委婉語。-et, 小詞后綴，-ery, 地點后綴。

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.

我們曾經因為在公墓唱下流歌曲而被拘留過一次。

來自柯林斯例句

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

對墓地的褻瀆震驚了整個地區。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He walked numbly into the cemetery.

他糊里糊涂地走進了墓地。

來自柯林斯例句

4. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

他被安葬在海格特墓地。

來自《權威詞典》

5. The body was interred at the cemetery.

遺體埋葬在公墓里.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》