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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]

*[https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Paris catacombs].

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: a subterranean [[cemetery]] of galleries with recesses for [[tombs]] —usually used in plural

*1: a subterranean [[cemetery]] of galleries with recesses for [[tombs]] —usually used in plural

:b : a [[complex]] set of interrelated things <the endless catacombs of formal [[education]] — Kingman Brewster †1988>  

:b : a [[complex]] set of interrelated things <the endless catacombs of formal [[education]] — Kingman Brewster †1988>  

==Description==

==Description==

'''Catacombs''' are human-made subterranean passageways for [[religious]] [[practice]]. Any chamber used as a [[burial]] place is a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman empire]. Many are under [[cities]] and have been popularized by [[stories]] of their use as war refuges, smugglers' hideouts, or meeting places for [[cults]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb]

'''Catacombs''' are human-made subterranean passageways for [[religious]] [[practice]]. Any chamber used as a [[burial]] place is a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman empire]. Many are under [[cities]] and have been popularized by [[stories]] of their use as war refuges, smugglers' hideouts, or meeting places for [[cults]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb]

[[Category: Anthropology]]

[[Category: Anthropology]]