sepultura

From Latin sepultūra.

• IPA^(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/, [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.pulˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [se.pulˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. burial
2. grave (excavation for burial)

• sepultar

• “sepultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sepultura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sepultura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sepultura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin sepultūra.

IPA^(key): [sepulˈtuɾa]

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

• “sepultura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

From sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“I bury”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se.pulˈtuː.ra/, [s̠ɛpʊɫ̪ˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.pulˈtu.ra/, [sepul̪ˈt̪uːrä]

sepultūra f (genitive sepultūrae); first declension

1. 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,

First-declension noun.

• “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
    

From Old Galician-Portuguese sepultura, borrowed from Latin sepultūra (“burial”), from sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“to bury”).

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

   Synonyms: carneiro, cova, jazigo, sepulcro, tumba, túmulo

• “sepultura” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “sepultura” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sepultura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “sepultura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra. Cognate with English sepulture.

• IPA^(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/ [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. the act or state of burial

   Synonym: entierro

2. grave (a hole made in the Earth to bury a corpse)

   Synonym: tumba

• “sepultura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014