medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The Greeks were misspelling it something awful by the 4thC, to judge by
the tombstones I have studied at Corinth, Argos & Athens. -- the -oi- is
frequently replaced by H, though you are right about the -oi- instead of
-o-. Nearly all the vowels sounded alike, still sound alike, anyway.
DW
Mata Kimasitayo wrote:
>
> komêstêrion is a mistake - should be koimêstêrion.
>
> Mata
>
>
> Perhaps the place where the bodies of the faithful are
> buried, the cimiterium or coemeterium, can be inside the
> church ? The word is a loan from Greek to komêstêrion
> = a sleeping room, a burial place (LSJ, p 968, col 1).
>
> See Du Cange, II, p 329, col 2
>
> [ See http://tinyurl.com/yuedo2 ]
>
> CIMITERIUM, pro Coemeterium
>
> II. p 388, col. 1
>
> COEMETERIUM, Locus in quo humantur fidelium corpora.
>
> COEMETERIUM, Ecclesia, in qua scilicet fidelium corpora
> humantur.
>
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