Mausoleum

Borrowed from Latin mausōlēum (“mausoleum”).

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Mausoleum n (strong, genitive Mausoleums, plural Mausoleen)

1. mausoleum

• → Russian: мавзолей (mavzolej)

• “Mausoleum” in Duden online

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon), named after Mausolus (?–395 BCE).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mau̯.soːˈɫeː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mau̯.soˈlɛː.um]

Mausōlēum n sg (genitive Mausōlēī); second declension

1. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Mausōlēum n sg (genitive Mausōlēī); second declension

1. A mausoleum.
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 5.64:

     Tam vicina iubent nos vivere Mausolea, cum doceant, ipsos posse perire deos.

     The mausoleums, close at hand, bid us live, for they teach us that even gods can die.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “Mausōlēum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mausōlēum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 956.