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Latin
Etymology
From sepeliō (“I inter”) + -crum.
Pronunciation
Noun
sepulcrum n (genitive sepulcrī); second declension
- grave, burial place
- Synonym: tumulus
- tomb, sepulchre
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “sepulcrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sepulcrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sepulcrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
- the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
- this is the inscription on his tomb..: sepulcro (Dat.) or in sepulcro hoc inscriptum est
- “sepulcrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sepulcrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin