Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Coemeterium
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich.
COEMETE'RIUM (κοιμητήριον). A Greek word; properly signifying a sleeping chamber (Dosiad. ap. Athen. iv. 22.); whence used by the Latin writers of a late period for a cemetery. Tertull. Anim. 51.