cremation(n.)
"火葬的行为或习俗",1620年代,源自拉丁语 cremationem(主格 crematio),动作名词,来自 cremare 的过去分词词干,意为"烧,用火焚烧"(也用于死者),源自 PIE *krem-, 是 *ker-(3)"热,火"的扩展形式。
The adoption of cremation would relieve us of a muck of threadbare burial-witticisms; but, on the other hand, it would resurrect a lot of mildewed old cremation-jokes that have had a rest for two thousand years. ["Mark Twain," "Life on the Mississippi," 1883]
采用火葬将使我们摆脱一堆陈腐的葬礼俗语; 但另一方面,它将使许多发霉的古老火葬笑话复活,这些笑话已经休息了两千年。["马克·吐温","密西西比河上的生活",1883年]
该词起源时间:1620年代