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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin sepultūra.
Pronunciation
Noun
sepultura f (plural sepultures)
- grave (excavation for burial)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sepultūra.
Pronunciation
Noun
sepultura f (plural sepultures)
- burial
- grave (excavation for burial)
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Galician
Etymology
From Latin sepultūra.
Pronunciation
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Noun
sepultura f (plural sepulturas)
- grave (excavation for burial)
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Latin
Etymology
From sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“I bury”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sepultūra f (genitive sepultūrae); first declension
- A burial, funeral, interment, a sepulchering
- Synonym: fūnus
- 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,
Declension
First-declension noun.
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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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese sepultura, borrowed from Latin sepultūra (“burial”), from sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“to bury”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra
Noun
sepultura f (plural sepulturas)
- grave (excavation for burial)
- Synonyms: carneiro, cova, jazigo, sepulcro, tumba, túmulo
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sepultūra. Cognate with English sepulture.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: se‧pul‧tu‧ra
Noun
sepultura f (plural sepulturas)
- the act or state of burial
- Synonym: entierro
- grave (a hole made in the Earth to bury a corpse)
- Synonym: tumba
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