sepelio

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sep-el-ie/o- (to honor), originally meaning in Latin “to perform rituals on a corpse,” from Proto-Indo-European *sep- (to care for, honor). Cognate with Sanskrit सप् (sap, to honor), सपर्यति (saparyati, honors), and Ancient Greek ἕπω (hépō, to busy oneself with).

Pronunciation

Verb

sepeliō (present infinitive sepelīre, perfect active sepelīvī, supine sepultum); fourth conjugation

  1. to bury, inter
    Synonyms: obruō, dēmergō, mergō
  2. to burn on a funeral pyre
  3. (figuratively) to destroy, ruin, overwhelm
    Synonyms: ruīnō, ēvāstō, dēvāstō, dēstruō, aboleō, dīruō, exscindō, perdō, occīdō, tollō, vāstō, populor, impellō, interimō, accīdō, perimō, absūmō, trucīdō
    Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor
  4. to suppress
    Synonyms: supprimō, opprimō, reprimō, comprimō, dēprimō, cohibeō, premō, angō
  5. to submerge
    Synonyms: dēmergō, summergō, immergō, dēmittō, prōcumbō, supprimō, mergō

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: sepelliō (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sepelir
  • Spanish: sepelir

References

  • sepelio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sepelio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sepelio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • sepelio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 555

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sepelīre, sepelio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seˈpeljo/
  • Rhymes: -eljo
  • Syllabification: se‧pe‧lio

Noun

sepelio m (plural sepelios)

  1. burial
    Synonym: entierro

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