Rest in peace united in Christ." The abbreviation R.I.P., meaning "Requiescat in pace" "Rest in peace", continues to be engraved on the gravestones of Christians, especially in the Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican denominations. In the Tridentine Requiem Mass of the Catholic Church the phrase appears several times. To satisfy a vogue for rhyming couplets on tombstones, the phrase has been parsed ungrammatically as: This verse has been found inscribed in Hebrew on gravestones dating from the 1st century BC, in the graveyard of Bet Shearim. It speaks of the righteous person who died because he could not stand the evil surrounding him. A
Sambo (racial term) language sources. "Webster's Third International Dictionary" holds that it may have come from the Kongo word "nzambu" (monkey). Note that the "z" of (Latin American) Spanish is pronounced like the English "s" rather than as the "z" in the word "nzambu". The Royal Spanish Academy gives the origin from a Latin word, possibly the adjective "valgus" or another modern Spanish term ("patizambo"), both of which translate to "bow-legged". The equivalent term in Portuguese-speaking areas, such as Brazil, is "cafuzo". Examples of "Sambo" as a common name can be found as far back as the 19th century. In Thackeray's novel "Vanity