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Topic: DEATH

Date: 900-1000
Language: Late Latin
Origin: Catacumbas underground place in Rome where the bodies of St Peter and St Paul were said to be buried

catacomb

 noun
     
cat‧a‧comb [countable usually plural]
MX an area underground where dead people are buried [= tomb]
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