Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Quan tài”
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==Từ nguyên học==
[[File:Ancient Egyptian Coffin.JPG|thumb|right|140px|Cạnh bên của một quan tài bằng đá thời Ai Cập cổ đại.]]
Chứng thực đầu tiên bằng tiếng Anh vào năm 1380, từ ''coffin'' xuất phát từ [[tiếng Pháp cổ]] {{lang|fro|cofin}}, từ tiếng [[Latin]] {{lang|la|cophinus}}, có nghĩa là ''[[rổ]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dcophinus |title=cophinus |dictionary= Từ điển Latin |publisher=
Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry, use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a [[euphemism]] introduced by the [[undertaker]]'s trade.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/68/43/1143.html |title=casket, coffin (nn.) |publisher=[[Bartleby.com]] |work=[[Columbia Guide to Standard American English]]}}</ref> A distinction is commonly drawn between "coffins" and "caskets", using "coffin" to refer to a tapered [[hexagon]]al or [[octagon]]al (also considered to be anthropoidal in shape) box and "casket" to refer to a [[rectangle|rectangular]] box, often with a split lid used for viewing the deceased as seen in the picture. Receptacles for cremated and cremulated human ashes (sometimes called cremains<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utc.edu/Administration/DepartmentalHonors/BrooksTim.pdf |format=PDF |title=Departmental Honors |publisher=Utc.edu |accessdate=2014-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606095351/https://www.utc.edu/Administration/DepartmentalHonors/BrooksTim.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.funerals.org/faq/pdf-pamphlets/doc_view/29-what-shall-we-do-with-the-ashes funerals.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227030320/http://www.funerals.org/faq/pdf-pamphlets/doc_view/29-what-shall-we-do-with-the-ashes |date=December 27, 2010 }}</ref>) are called [[urns]].
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