cenotaphium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κενοτᾰ́φῐον (kenotắphĭon, “empty tomb”), from κενός (kenós, “empty”) +‎ τᾰ́φος (tắphos, “grave, tomb”) +‎ -ῐον (-ĭon, noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛ.nɔˈta.pʰi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe.noˈt̪aː.fi.um]

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