cenotaphium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κενοτᾰ́φῐον (kenotáphion, “empty tomb”), from κενός (kenós, “empty”) +‎ τᾰ́φος (táphos, “grave, tomb”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ke.noˈta.pʰi.um/, [kɛnɔˈt̪äpʰiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.noˈta.fi.um/, [t͡ʃenoˈt̪äːfium]

cenotaphium n (genitive cenotaphiī or cenotaphī); second declension

1. empty tomb, cenotaph

   Synonym: honōrārium

   • c. 64 BCE – 17 BCE, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae 273.12
   • Aelius Lampridius, Augustan History: Severus Alexander 63.3
   • Flavius Vopiscus, Augustan History 15.1
   • 533 CE, Justinian, Digest 11.7.6

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “cenotaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press