sepellio

Latin

Etymology

From earlier sepeliō, with gemination of /l/. Found in imperial inscriptions.

Verb

sepelliō (present infinitive sepellīre, perfect active sepellīvī, supine sepultum or sepellītum); fourth conjugation

(nonstandard) to bury

Reconstruction notes

Early on there appears to have arisen a variant *sepulliō by analogy with the participle sepultus. Some of the Romance forms may have adapted to reflexes of the prefix sub-. There seems to have been an early gemination of the /p/ in Italy, though this was not universal.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: seppellire, soppellire, sepellire
  - Italian: seppellire, sipellire (Siena)
- Neapolitan:
  suppellire (Calabria)
  
  sopellire (Otranto)
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: suplir
  - Ligurian: sepilir
  - Lombard: suplir, sepulir
  - Piedmontese: suplir, sapolir
- Friulian: sabulir
- Romansch: sepulir
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: sebelir
- Old French: sevelir
  - Middle French: sevelir ⇒ ensevelir
    - French: ensevelir
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: sebellir, sebollir, sebullir, sobollir
  - Catalan: sebollir
- Old Occitan: sebelir, sebelhir, sebulir, sebulhir
  - Occitan: sebelir
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Spanish: sebellir, sebullir, sebollir, sobollir, çobollir, çabollir, çabullir
  - Spanish: zabullir, zambullir

References

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1991) “zambullir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 61
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sepelire”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 476

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