Catalan

Noun

tomba f ‎(plural tombes)

1. tomb

Related terms

• tombar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.ba/
• Homophone: tombât

Verb

tomba

1. third-person singular past historic of tomber

Irish

Noun

tomba m

1. Obsolete form of tuama.

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος ‎(túmbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.ba/, [ˈt̪ombä]
• Hyphenation: tóm‧ba

Noun

tomba f ‎(plural tombe)

1. tomb, grave
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto VI, p. 98 vv. 97-98:

     «[...] ciascun rivederà la trista tomba, ¶ ripiglierà sua carne e sua figura, [...]

     «[...] each one shall find again his dismal tomb, ¶ shall reassume his flesh and his own figure, [...]

2. (figuratively) A very narrow and gloomy habitation or room (such as a basement or cellar).
3. (figuratively, archaic) underground cave or vault
   • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, Tommaso Hedlin (1527), page 95:

     [...] in una tomba, nella quale alcun lume non ſi vedea, [...]

     [...] into a vault, in which there was no light to be seen, [...]

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXXIV, p. 513-514, vv. 127-128:

     Luogo è là giù da Belzebù remoto ¶ tanto quanto la tomba si distende, [...]

     A place there is below, from Beelzebub ¶ as far receding as the cave extends, [...]

   • 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Istorie Fiorentine, page 149:

     [...] in una tōba fatta ᵱ cōſeruare frumento ſi naſcoſe [...]

     [...] [he] hid in a vault used to store wheat [...]

Synonyms

• sepolcro, sepoltura; arca, avello, tumulo (literary)

Derived terms

• tombale

Related terms

• ecatombe