So THAT s The Difference Between A Headstone, A Gravestone, And A Tombstone

CemeteryI was embarrassingly far into my 20s when I learned that graveyards and cemeteries aren’t the same thing (the same goes for “coffin” and “casket”).And I’m appalled at how many Halloweens I’ve spent unaware of the gory difference between ghosts and ghouls. Well, another blow to my spooky self-esteem: seems I’ve been wrong to assume that tombstones are the same thing as headstones, too. What’s the difference between a tombstone, a gravestone, and a headstone? Many of us use the terms interchangeably to describe an engraved slab of rock placed above a deceased person’s grave. And according to headstone experts at Milano monuments, that’s honestly alright for day-to-day use – in modern contexts, people will know what you mean. But historically, the words have had distinct meanings. Originally, “tombstone” was “adapted by the English language in the mid-1500s and was used to describe the lid of a stone coffin”. Gravestones, meanwhile, used to refer to a slab of rock laid down on top of a grave – not standing up vertically at the head of it. These, Milano Monuments added, are closer to today’s grave ledgers. Per the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, “Tombstones and gravestones usually refer to large stone slabs that cover a tomb or grave, usually with ornate engravings or other designs”. Only headstones always meant the standing-up, top-of-the-grave slab we associate with all three terms today. “Grave” and “grave” have different etymologies Even more confusingly, the noun “grave” – the place to bury a deceased person – and the adjective “grave” meaning sad or mournful do not actually have the same root word. Nope – the former meaning is from “Middle English, from Old English græf; akin to Old High German grab grave, Old English grafan to dig,” Merriam-Webster explained. But the latter adjective is (deep inhale): “borrowed from Middle French L Middle French grave ‘having authority, weighty, heavy, low (of a sound),’ borrowed from Latin gravis ‘heavy, oppressive, serious,’ going back to Indo-European... ‘heavy,’ whence, from zero-grade... Gothic kaurjos (accusative plural of presumed *kaurus) ‘weighty,’ Greek barýs ‘heavy,’ Sanskrit gurúḥ (comparative garīyas) ‘heavy, weighty, venerable’... Latin brūtus ‘heavy, inert’... Latvian grū̃ts ‘requiring much effort or pain, hard, heavy, (of a woman) pregnant’... Tocharian B krāmär ‘weight, heaviness’”.Phew...Related...So THAT s The Difference Between A Cemetery And A GraveyardSo THAT S The Difference Between A Coffin And A CasketSo THAT s The Difference Between A Ghost And A Ghoul

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