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Latin
Etymology
From exsequor + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
exsequia f (genitive exsequiae); first declension
- (in the plural) funeral procession
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “exsĕquĭae (exequ-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exsequia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to attend a person's funeral: exsequias alicuius funeris prosequi
- (ambiguous) to celebrate the obsequies: funus or exsequias celebrare
- (ambiguous) to be deprived of the rites of burial: iustis exsequiarum carere