Cremation
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late 19th century (as cremation ): from Latin cremare ‘burn’.
wiktionary
Borrowed from Latin cremātiō, cremātiōnis; equivalent to cremate + -ion.
etymonline
cremation (n.)
"act or custom of burning of the dead," 1620s, from Latin cremationem (nominative crematio), noun of action from past-participle stem of cremare "to burn, consume by fire" (also used of the dead), from PIE *krem-, extended form of root *ker- (3) "heat, fire."
The adoption of cremation would relieve us of a muck of threadbare burial-witticisms; but, on the other hand, it would resurrect a lot of mildewed old cremation-jokes that have had a rest for two thousand years. ["Mark Twain," "Life on the Mississippi," 1883]
