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==Origin==
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''catacumb'', Middle French ''catacombe'', probably from Old Italian ''catacomba'', from Late Latin ''catacumbae'', plural
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''catacumb'', Middle French ''catacombe'', probably from Old Italian ''catacomba'', from Late Latin ''catacumbae'', plural
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
The first place to be referred to as ''catacombs'' was the system of underground [[tombs]] between the 2nd and 3rd milestones of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Appian Way] in Rome, where the bodies of the apostles [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] and [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]], among others, were said to have been [[buried]]. The name of that place in late Latin was ''catacumbae'', a word of obscure [[origin]], possibly deriving from a proper name, or else a corruption of the [[Latin]] phrase ''cata tumbas'', "among the [[tombs]]". The word referred originally only to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Rome Roman catacombs], but was extended by 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Paris catacombs].
The first place to be referred to as ''catacombs'' was the system of underground [[tombs]] between the 2nd and 3rd milestones of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Appian Way] in Rome, where the bodies of the apostles [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] and [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]], among others, were said to have been [[buried]]. The name of that place in late Latin was ''catacumbae'', a word of obscure [[origin]], possibly deriving from a proper name, or else a corruption of the [[Latin]] phrase ''cata tumbas'', "among the [[tombs]]". The word referred originally only to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Rome Roman catacombs], but was extended by 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Paris catacombs].