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
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin listed summarily below. The full set of consonantal phonemes for A-L is almost identical to that of English, lacking only . Environments that condition the appearance of some of these phonemes are listed below: The change of intervocalic to is common but not universal. Voicing is more common in Latin than in Greek words, and never occurs in the common Greek ending "-sis", where "s" is always voiceless: "basis, crisis, genesis". The most common type of phonemic change in A-L is palatalization. A-L reflects the results of no less than four palatalization processes. The first of these occurred in Late