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

1. (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