1º_ Coffin, coffin in which the corpses are placed for burial. The name comes from the Latin sarcophagus , which takes it from the Greek 963; 945; 961; 958; ( sarx , "meat") 966; 945; 947; 949; 953; 957; (fagein, "eat") and it is a somewhat poetic way of calling some limestone boxes that decomposed the bodies of the deceased more quickly than other materials. See sarc- , lucilo . 2º_ By the above, any cover or container for elements or waste that must be permanently isolated. 3º_ Name vulgarized for the genus of insects sarcophagus, which lay their eggs in decomposed bodies to serve as food for their larvae.
