cremate

English

Etymology

Latin cremare, to burn to ashes

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)

1. (transitive) to burn something to ashes
2. (transitive) to incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial)

Translations

burn to ashes

• Bulgarian: изпепелявам (bg) (izpepeljavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚毀 (fénhuǐ)

• Danish: brænde (da)
• Finnish: polttaa tuhkaksi
• French: crémer (fr)

• German: einäschern
• Hungarian: hamvaszt (hu)
• Latin: cremō
• Russian: сжигать (ru) impf (sžigát’), сжечь (ru) pf (sžeč’), испепелять (ru) impf (ispepel'ját'), испепелить (ru) pf (ispepelít')
• Swedish: bränna (sv)

incinerate a body

• Bulgarian: изгарям (bg) (izgarjam), кремирам (kremiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚化 (zh) (fénhuà)

• Danish: kremere
• Esperanto: kremacii
• Finnish: krematoida (fi)
• French: crémer (fr), crématiser (fr)
• German: kremieren (de)

• Hungarian: elhamvaszt (hu)
• Italian: cremare (it)
• Japanese: 火葬する (かそうする, kasō-suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kremere (no)

  Nynorsk: kremere (no), kremera

• Russian: кремировать (ru) impf, pf (kremírovat')
• Swedish: kremera (sv)

Related terms

• cremation
• crematorium

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Italian

Verb

cremate

1. second-person plural present tense of cremare
2. second-person plural imperative of cremare

Anagrams

• certame

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Latin

Verb

cremāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of cremō