English → Latin
“tomb” in Latin
tumulusmound; hill; knoll; hillock; heap of earth; barrow; grave' tumulussepulcrumgrave; burial place; tomb; sepulchresepeliōto bury, inter; to burn on a funeral pyre; to destroy, ruin, overwhelmconditōriumrepository; tomb, coffin, sarcophagusmonumentumreminder, memorial; monument; tomb, burial place
The English word tomb itself goes back to Latin tumba.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tomb
tumulus (a mound): sepulcrum: sepultura (Marcus Tullius Cic.): conditorium (grave, Plin., Ep., Suet.): monumentum sepulcri, or sometimes in the same sense, simply monumentum or sepulcrum (with a monument). A family tomb, monumentum hereditarium (that has passed down by inheritance); sepulcrum patrium (in which our fathers are buried; Vid: Marcus Tullius Cic., Rosc. Am., 9, 24); monumentum gentile; tumulus gentilitius (a family tomb; Vid: Suet., Ner., 50; Velleius, 2, 119, extr.): to be buried in a family tomb, gentilitii tumuli sepultura honorari: in the family tomb of the Domitii, the Julii, gentili Domitiorum monumento condi; tumulo Juliorum inferri.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tomb?
- The usual Latin words for “tomb” are tumulus, sepulcrum, sepeliō; also conditōrium, monumentum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.