camposanto

Meaning

burial place or cemetery

Concepts

cemetery

graveyard

churchyard

cementery

God’s acre

burial ground

Aoyama

memorial park

Kyoto

memorial park

necropolis

burial site

burying ground

Synonyms

cimitero

necropoli

sepolcreto

campo santo

Translations

Friedhof

cementerio

cimetière

cemitério

νεκροταφείο

Kirchhof

kerkhof

cementiri

begraafplaats

κοιμητήριο

mezarlık

Gottesacker

campo santo

coemeterium

Etymology

Dating back at least to the Camposanto at Pisa, a novel city initiative begun in the thirteenth century. It derives from the Latin, campus sanctus (“holy field”).