sepulcrum

Latin

Alternative forms

• sepulchrum

Etymology

From sepeliō (“I inter”) +‎ -crum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈpul.krum/, [s̠ɛˈpʊɫ̪krʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈpul.krum/, [seˈpulkrum]

Noun

sepulcrum n (genitive sepulcrī); second declension

1. grave, burial place

   Synonym: tumulus

2. tomb, sepulchre

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sepulcrum	sepulcra
Genitive	sepulcrī	sepulcrōrum
Dative	sepulcrō	sepulcrīs
Accusative	sepulcrum	sepulcra
Ablative	sepulcrō	sepulcrīs
Vocative	sepulcrum	sepulcra

Related terms

• sepulcrālis
• sepulcrētum
• sepultūra

Descendants

• → Catalan: sepulcre
• Friulian: sepulcri
• Italian: sepolcro
• Old French: sepulcre
  • → English: sepulchre
  • French: sépulcre
• Piedmontese: sepolcr
• Portuguese: sepulcro
• Spanish: sepulcro

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^[1], 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