sepultura

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

Etymology

From sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“I bury”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se.pulˈtuː.ra/, [sɛ.pʊɫˈtuː.ra]

Noun

sepultūra f (genitive sepultūrae); first declension

1. A burial, interment, a sepulchering
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:10

     contigit autem ut quadam die fatigatus a sepultura veniens domum iactasset se iuxta parietem et obdormisset (Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,)

References

• sepultura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sepultura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sepultura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sepultura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bury a person: sepultura aliquem afficere
    
  • to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere
    

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sepultura, from Latin sepultūra (“burial”), from sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“I bury”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌse.puw.ˈtu.ɾɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.puɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

Etymology

From Latin sepultūra. Cognate with English sepulture.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. The act or state of burial.
2. A hole made in the Earth to bury a corpse.
3. A place where something is buried.
4. grave.