coffin

(Engels)

Noun

1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
2. The eighth Lenormand card.
3. (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
4. (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
6. A storage container for nuclear waste.
7. A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.

Verb

To place in a coffin.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈkɒfɪn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: coffyn

In summary

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.

Sinonieme

casket

box

📦

bier

chest

trunk

casket

case

grave

🪦

sarcophagus

deathly

drawer

footlocker

gearbox

bandbox

hearse

litter

package

📦

pall

receptacle

sepulchral

tomb

trough

vessel

bottle bank

funerary box

coffin-spark

shielding tank

shielded cask

container, ferry, vessel, vat, trough, tub, manger

groove

beer

🍺

boxes

cartons

cask

cemetary

coffer

container

crate

Vertalings

Sarg

⚰️

cercueil

⚰️

ataúd

⚰️

bara

féretro

⚰️

trumna

caixão

⚰️

feretro

taüt

⚰️

φέρετρο

cassa da morto

⚰️

kist

📦

doodkist

doodskist

⚰️

ataúde

⚰️