cenotaph

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a monument honoring a dead person or group whose remains are buried elsewhere or cannot be recovered

   The city erected a cenotaph for the sailors lost at sea.

Simplified etymology

Cenotaph entered English through French and Latin from Greek kenos, “empty,” and taphos, “tomb,” literally referring to an empty tomb.

Borrowed through French cenotaphe from Greek kenotaphion, formed from kenos ('empty') + taphos ('tomb'). Its literal sense is therefore 'empty tomb,' a memorial without the honored person's remains.

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