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mormânt
grave /morˈmɨnt/
noun#1807 most common
Also: tomb, sepulcher
Example sentences
Acesta este un mormânt vechi.
This is an old grave.
Am pus flori pe mormânt.
I put flowers on the grave.
Familia vizitează mormântul bunicului în fiecare an.
The family visits their grandfather's grave every year.
În cimitir sunt multe morminte vechi acoperite de iarbă.
In the cemetery there are many old graves covered with grass.
Arheologii au descoperit un mormânt regal plin de comori.
Archaeologists discovered a royal tomb full of treasures.
Tăcerea din jurul mormântului părea să apese asupra întregului sat, ca o povară nespusă.
The silence around the grave seemed to weigh on the whole village, like an unspoken burden.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mormânt | morminte |
| Genitive | mormântului | mormintelor |
| Accusative | mormânt | morminte |
| Vocative | mormântule | mormintelor |
Word family
înmormântato bury
înmormântareburial, funeraldezmormântato exhume
dezmormântareexhumation
monumentmonument
Etymology
Mormânt comes from the Latin monumentum, meaning a reminder or memorial. Popular Latin speech in the region wore the word down through sound changes until it settled into the modern Romanian form. Romanian later borrowed the same Latin root a second time, directly, as the more formal word monument, so the two words are doublets from one source.
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