encoffin

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Old French en-bor.

Middle English en-

English en-

English coffin

English encoffin

From en- + coffin.

Verb

encoffin (third-person singular simple present encoffins, present participle encoffining, simple past and past participle encoffined)

1. (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:

     The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.

Derived terms

• encoffiner
• encoffinment

Translations

place in a coffin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝殮 / 装殓 (zh) (zhuāngliàn)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sulkea arkkuun, laittaa arkkuun, panna arkkuun
• Japanese: 納棺する (ja) (nōkan suru)