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tombe (plural tombes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tomb.

From Middle Dutch tombe, from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔm.bə/

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• Hyphenation: tom‧be

tombe f (plural tombes or tomben, diminutive tombetje n)

1. tomb

   Synonym: graftombe

• graftombe

Inherited from Middle French tumbe, tombe, from Old French tumbe, tombe, from Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃b/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃b

tombe f (plural tombes)

1. grave
2. (loosely) tomb (small building or vault)

   Synonym: tombeau

French tombe usually means “grave”. Although cognate with English tomb, the latter often corresponds to French tombeau when referring to a monumental burial structure.

• Antillean Creole: tonm
• Haitian Creole: tonm

tombe

1. inflection of tomber:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.be/
• Rhymes: -ombe
• Hyphenation: tóm‧be

tombe f pl

1. plural of tomba

From French tomber (“to fall”), compare Haitian Creole tonbe.

tombe

1. to fall

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

From French tomber.

tombe

1. to fall

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN

From Anglo-Norman tumbe, toumbe, Old French tombe, from Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “funeral mound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːmb(ə)/, /ˈtuːmb(ə)/

tombe (plural tombes)

1. sepulchre
2. barrow (hillock with a grave underneath)
3. casket
4. (rare) tombstone

• tomb, toumb, toumbe, towmbe, toume, towme, tumb, tumbe, tumba, thombe, thoumbe

• tomben

• English: tomb
  • → Irish: tuama
  • → Māori: toma
• Middle Scots: tumb, towm

• “tomb(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

tombe

1. alternative form of thombe (“thumb”)

tombe

1. alternative form of tome (“empty”)

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

tombe f (plural tombes)

1. (Jersey) grave

• fôsse

tombe

1. inflection of tombar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃p/

tombe f (plural tombes)

1. tomb, grave