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Latin
Etymology
From sēmi- (“half”) + sepultus (“buried”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sēmisepultus (feminine sēmisepulta, neuter sēmisepultum); first/second-declension adjective
- half-buried
43 BCE – c. 17 CE,
Ovid,
The Heroines 1.55–56:
- sēmisepulta virum curvīs feriuntur arātrīs
ossa, ruīnōsās occulit herba domōs.- Half-buried bones of heroes are struck by the curving plough, and grass conceals the ruined houses.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- semisepultus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- semisepultus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “semisepultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press