coffin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A long box in which a dead person is buried or cremated.

   Six men carried the coffin slowly into the church.

2. 2
   verb

   To place a dead body into a coffin.

   The body was coffined before the funeral.

From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.

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