Tomb
/tuːm/noun
A place where a dead body is buried or entombed; a grave or sepulcher.
Did you know?English got tomb through Old French from Latin tumba, which came from Greek tymbos, meaning a burial mound or sepulcher—so the word’s deepest past is literally about earth piled over the dead.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*tewh₂-
“to swell, rise, or become a mound”
Ancient Greek
Greek
τύμβος (tymbos)
“a burial mound, grave, or barrow”
Late Latin
Latin
tumba
“a tomb or sepulcher”
Old French
Old French
tombe
“a grave, tomb”
Middle English
English
tomb
“a grave or sepulcher”