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Cemetery comes from Late Latin coemētērium ‘cemetery, churchyard, burial ground’, from Ancient Greek κοιμάω ‘I put to sleep’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- ‘to be lying down’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱey-¹‘to be lying down’root named by Wiktionary
2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκοιμάω¹koimáō‘I put to sleep’
3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκοιμητήριον¹koimētḗrion‘burial place’
4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcoemētērium¹‘cemetery, churchyard, burial ground’
5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500cimitērium¹
6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400cimitiere¹
7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500cimiterie¹
8. Englishearliest quotation 1826cemetery¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English cemetery
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1826, Mary Shelley, London: Henry Colburn: “The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek,…”.