tomb英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited. broadly

— As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
One who keeps secrets.

— I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.
Death (literary)

— I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

动词 v.

To bury. transitive

词形变化

tombs plural tombs present,singular,third-person tombing participle,present tombed participle,past tombed past

词汇关系

衍生词

altar tomb beehive tomb chamber tomb disentomb empty as the tomb on Easter entomb the womb to the tomb womb to tomb passage tomb Severn-Cotswold tomb silent as the tomb tombal tomb bat tombful tombic tombless tomblet tomblike tombmate tombology tombstone untomb wedge tomb

词源

词源 1

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh.
The verb is from Middle English tomben.

词源 2

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh.
The verb is from Middle English tomben.