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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20-Sep-16 06:30 PM, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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Il giorno 20 set 2016, alle ore 08:59, Steve Doerr <<a
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<div>And the word actually *means* 'empty tomb': 'ancient Greek
<em>κενοτάϕιον</em> < <em>κενός</em> empty [...] + <em>τάϕος</em>
tomb' (Oxford English Dictionary).</div>
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<div style="direction: inherit;">+1, I have added the
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<div style="direction: inherit;">the proposal: <a
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the tag <br>
tomb=cenotaph <br>
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would be like<br>
building=no_building <br>
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makes little sense. <br>
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Cenotaphs are memorials/monuments. Not the place of burial therefore
not a tomb. <br>
A small sample of past use in OSM are;<br>
Node The Cenotaph (59598355) - London, UK<br>
Way <bdi>The Cenotaph (99953212)</bdi>' San Antonio, USA<br>
Node <bdi>(1290835360)</bdi> - <bdi>Cenotaph</bdi> - Montreal,
Canada<br>
Node: <bdi>Cenotaph</bdi> (<bdi>3687638609</bdi>) Hiroshima, Japan<br>
Node: <bdi>Cenotaph</bdi> (<bdi>2434280368</bdi>) Saskatchewan,
Canada<br>
Node: <bdi>Penang Cenotaph</bdi> (<bdi>1726781335</bdi>) Malaysia<br>
Node: <bdi>Cenotaph</bdi> (<bdi>4011033735</bdi>) Belfast, Ireland<br>
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The meaning of the Greek root ... and the meaning of the present
English are different as happens over time and with translations
between languages (Greek-Latin-English). <br>
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