cimetière

French

Alternative forms

cœmetiere (obsolete)
cœmetière (obsolete)

Etymology

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)

cemetery, graveyard
Synonyms: cime, cimetoche

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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